Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:28:22 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net>, Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/java/jgraphx Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <AANLkTinnsfdVVRi39HEp24bXMM2ykWydnmt%2BiEdDSqHH@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100827062503.GA85184@FreeBSD.org> References: <201008221158.o7MBwce6093897@repoman.freebsd.org> <AANLkTinwzkmw3%2BkSjddODtzFSCD-5RBb1gU48%2BM6w58E@mail.gmail.com> <20100827062503.GA85184@FreeBSD.org>
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2010/8/27 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:32PM -0700, Rob Farmer wrote: >> This breaks math/scilab (which is the only dependency in the ports >> tree). Unfortunately, the author of jgraphx seems to completely >> disregard backwards compatibility and changes the API in virtually >> every release. >> >> I tried to patch Scilab based on their git repository (which has >> support for 1.4.0.1), but hundreds of revisions have passed and they >> have rearranged their tree a bit and added/removed some files, so it >> didn't go well. >> >> IMHO, we need to either create a separate jgraphx-scilab port or keep >> this in sync with Scilab (this is what Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo are >> doing). > > Considering Scilab is the only consumer of jgraphx, it seems having > special port would be an overkill. =A0I think we should keep the two in > sync, and probably work with upstream maintainers of both projects to > improve compatibility and API inheritance in the future. =A0Separate port > of jgraphx-scilab is palliative solution, i.e. it simply increases the > entropy, not solving the underlying problem. > > ./danfe Since Scilab is the only consumer of jgraphx, I don't mind reverting it. Actually, I wrote that while trying to repair Scilab myself, so if you want maintainership of jgraphx too, that's fine. Alternatively you could have it as another distfile in Scilab rather than depending on the port.... Chris
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