From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 10 17:29:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E88106567A for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:29:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AFB8FC22 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:29:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E201A000B0E for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:29:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at smtp.sd73.bc.ca Received: from coal.localnet (unknown [192.168.0.10]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF6F1A000B0C for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:29:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:29:27 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.26-1-686; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: <49B41108.8060105@telenix.org> <49B5EA87.1080103@FreeBSD.org> <49B69DC0.7030205@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <49B69DC0.7030205@telenix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903101029.27812.fjwcash@gmail.com> Subject: Re: portmanager modifying bsd.port.mk X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:29:30 -0000 On March 10, 2009 10:05 am Chuck Robey wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > Chuck Robey wrote: > >> Just before sending my mail, I took a look at the cvs log, last entry > >> is from more than 6 months ago, unless something is somehow fubared > >> with my archive. If it sits unchanged for so long, I interpreted that > >> as being dead, I wasn't trying to be insulting, maybe I made an > >> incorrect assumption. > > > > The last change to portmaster (minor bug fixes and one minor new > > feature) was just shy of 6 months after the previous change, but I > > assure you that it's very much alive. :) Just because an existing > > feature set is more or less mature doesn't mean that the project is > > dead. > > Doug, we were speaking of portmanager, not portmaster (about which I'm > utterly innocent). Being thjat this is ports, not -chat, I think we > shouldn't just launch out at random (although I'd enjoy that personally.) > If you want to continue this in any direction other than portmanager, > maybe you could either move this to freebsd-chat, or make it private (no > list in the CC:?) _______________________________________________ I believe he was just trying to make the point that just because there hasn't been any patches posted in 6 months, doesn't mean a project is dead. Not trying to steer the conversation over to portmaster. -- Freddie fjwcash@gmail.com