Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:56:50 -0500 (CDT) From: beno0028@umn.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: no stable zsh available in ports Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0608021435400.26680@hxngb.serrfuryy.bet>
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On 29 August 2005 the port shells/zsh-devel was removed (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1078555+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/cvs-all/20050904.cvs-all). Perhaps as a consequence, on 30 April 2006 the port shells/zsh was changed from version 4.2.6 of the stable branch to version 4.3.2 of the zsh development branch (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=551139+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/cvs-all/20060507.cvs-all). After 3 months of struggling to use this new, relatively buggy version, I finally have time to address what I see as a problem. The solution, in my opinion, is to reinstate the shells/zsh-devel port for the development branch and have the stable branch, appropriate for unambitious end-users like me, on shells/zsh. Before bringing this up in my first-ever problem report, I wanted to do as the article "Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports" recommends: "If your problem has not been discussed on the lists, you might try posting a message about it and waiting a few days to see if someone can spot something you have overlooked." With thanks, Scott Benolkin
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