Suggestion

[Craig Treleaven]

At 5:26 PM -0500 5/28/13, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>On May 28, 2013, at 17:17, Chris Jones wrote:
>  > On 28 May 2013, at 10:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>  >> On May 28, 2013, at 16:56, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> I'd like to know that a port has been successfully installed, 
>recently.  IOW that it hasn't suffered bitrot!
>>>
>>>  To some degree, you can answer that already, by checking if there 
>>>is a recent package on the packages server.
>>


True but a non-trivial fraction of ports not able to be distributed 
as binaries.

>  > I was about to say the same. To my mind, this question is much 
>better/simply answered by just checking to see if the build bots 
>successfully built the port question. I don't see what you gain by 
>getting user stats as well.
>
>Just because the buildbots could build the port when it was last 
>updated doesn't mean that anybody can still build it today. For 
>example, one of its dependencies could have been updated in a way 
>that is incompatible.

Am I missing something; how does one look up whether/when the 
buildbots built a specific port?

Craig