Removing support for old style bulk builds

[Aleksej Saushev]

Hello!

Currently we have old bulk build code that is stale and doesn't seem
to keep up with pkgsrc infrastructure. Do we really want to keep it?
Recent reports on pkgsrc-bulk seem to be generated predominantly by
pbulk and there's no old style bulk reports. Perhaps we should refine
documentation and kill obsolete code.

[Benny Siegert]

Post by Aleksej Saushev
Currently we have old bulk build code that is stale and doesn't seem
to keep up with pkgsrc infrastructure. Do we really want to keep it?
Recent reports on pkgsrc-bulk seem to be generated predominantly by
pbulk and there's no old style bulk reports. Perhaps we should refine
documentation and kill obsolete code.

Sounds good to me. However, I think there are a few developers who are
still using the old bulk build infrastructure, I think. Speak up if
you do!

--Benny.

[Jonathan Perkin]

Post by Aleksej Saushev
Currently we have old bulk build code that is stale and doesn't seem
to keep up with pkgsrc infrastructure. Do we really want to keep it?
Recent reports on pkgsrc-bulk seem to be generated predominantly by
pbulk and there's no old style bulk reports. Perhaps we should refine
documentation and kill obsolete code.

As someone who preferred the mk/bulk approach for a long time and
mangled it back into a working state on a number of occasions, even
I've switched to pbulk these days, and I think the advantages are
compelling enough that we should indeed steer people towards pbulk
instead of mk/bulk.

I'd like to see pbulk grow some user friendliness, though. When it
breaks it's usually in really non-obvious ways, and even simple things
like adding a usage message to 'bulkbuild' would help avoid POLA
violations.

It's a +1 from me.

[Aleksej Saushev]

Hello!

To remind about another removal candidate...

Post by Aleksej Saushev
Hello!
Currently we have old bulk build code that is stale and doesn't seem
to keep up with pkgsrc infrastructure. Do we really want to keep it?
Recent reports on pkgsrc-bulk seem to be generated predominantly by
pbulk and there's no old style bulk reports. Perhaps we should refine
documentation and kill obsolete code.

The above was written 2 years ago. Perhaps, it's time to remove it at last.

[Jonathan Perkin]

Post by Aleksej Saushev

Post by Aleksej Saushev
Hello!
Currently we have old bulk build code that is stale and doesn't seem
to keep up with pkgsrc infrastructure. Do we really want to keep it?
Recent reports on pkgsrc-bulk seem to be generated predominantly by
pbulk and there's no old style bulk reports. Perhaps we should refine
documentation and kill obsolete code.

The above was written 2 years ago. Perhaps, it's time to remove it at last.

Already done:

$ git show 442d4d943aba027277e75fedaaad784663d234ff
commit 442d4d943aba027277e75fedaaad784663d234ff
Author: wiz <wiz>
Date: Mon Jun 2 10:24:05 2014 +0000

Remove old bulk build code. Use pbulk.