| Interesting article with historical context that goes 10 years back and many detailed insights! Using pkgsrc at our company since a bit over a year has been excellent thanks to the great work from jperkin and many others.
It is one of the tools i wish i had known earlier about since it makes life sooo much easier. - Quartly stable releases mean that you have recent software most of the time. - It is available on many platforms (OS X, Linux, SmartOS/Illumos, the BSDs, ...) so you can use the same packages on all your systems. - Very easy to build binary packages of custom software / custom options / different versions / add your own patches. This is critical for most sysadmins/ops people - and if you ever tried to setup koji for CentOS you will love the simplicity of pkgsrc... In my opinion pkgsrc is the most underappreciated "devops"-tool out there.
It gave us much more control over our software stack and reduced the amount of work we had to put in to archive our goals. I also expect the effort to reduce bulk-build times to further improve the software quality of all things in pkgsrc.
Instead of weekly/daily bulk-builds (depending on the platform) it will be possible to have 4 or more reports a day.
This quick feedback will make determining if/which commit broke/fixed something more immediate. Great stuff! |