Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:51:29 -0500 (EST) From: Sleepycat Software <db@abyssinian.sleepycat.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Berkeley DB port to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199902080151.UAA01145@abyssinian.sleepycat.com>
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> Re: Berkeley DB port to FreeBSD > Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> > > It's a cgi script which redirects to a ftp site, probably so the "latest" > version can be tracked without needing to change the html. There's no problem > grabbing the distfiles from there.. That URL is going to be changing in the near future. > On a different note, though, the downloads page only points to the beta > release. For someone using the software in a production environment, it's > probably better to use the stable release, which is what I think I'll update > the port to. Version 2.6.4, to which you updated, is the previous beta release. (We don't usually put "stable" releases up on the web site. By the time a release has been around long enough to be declared "stable", there's always a newer beta release available.) > Just another point to the sleepycat guys - have you given thought to > maintaining the FreeBSD package yourselves? It's quite simple to do once you > learn "the ropes" (took me an evening), and it means you take control of > tracking the latest version of your software yourself without having to rely > on a (slack) external maintainer. There are a few other software developers > which do this with their ports already. We don't yet have a FreeBSD machine in house, and so we would be unable to do any testing at all, and I think it would be easy for us to accidentally break something. And, while I can see signing up to do this once we're a bit bigger, I don't want to add more release engineering work right now. Regards, --keith =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Keith Bostic Sleepycat Software Inc. db@sleepycat.com 394 E. Riding Dr. +1-978-287-4781 Carlisle, MA 01741 http://www.sleepycat.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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