images-and-archives has landed

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-4-2 20:08 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2011-04-02 03:55 , Joshua Root wrote:
>> As of r77511, port images are now stored as archives (ticket #19458).
>> Basic operations all work for me. There's a new script run during 'make
>> install' that converts existing image dirs into archives. It should
>> theoretically work with the flat registry and convert from direct mode
>> too, but I haven't tested that yet.
> 
> Great! I am currently converting my installed ports.
> 
> For the flat registry, I think we should remove it for the 1.10 release
> as sqlite registry as proved to be fast and reliable.

We could remove it as a selectable option, sure. The code itself has to
stick around to enable conversion.

Also, regarding "1.10": I've been thinking that official availability of
prebuilt archives would be a good enough reason to bump the version to
2.0. Thoughts?

- Josh