From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 5 5:33:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from fsmail.net (mail.fsmail.net [216.200.119.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B77837B409 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 05:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27670 invoked by uid 1120); 5 Sep 2001 12:32:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20010905123245.27669.qmail@fsmail.net> From: Mark Tranchant Subject: Re: wrong ftpq version! To: Johann Visagie , ftpq@tranchant.freeserve.co.uk Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:32:43 +0100 (GMT+01:00) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To be honest, I'd rather keep the development branch off any official distribution. It's *very* alpha-quality at the moment and only released for interested parties. I don't want hundreds of emails from FreeBSD users complaining that 1.1x is buggy... 1.05 (stable branch) is on my site now and *should* compile without any modifications. Please use this one! Thanks. -- Mark. ----- Original Message ----- From: Johann Visagie To: ftpq@tranchant.freeserve.co.uk CC: ports@FreeBSD.org Sent: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:38:21 +0100 (GMT+01:00) Subject: Re: wrong ftpq version! >> I maintain ftpq: >> >> http://www.tranchant.freeserve.co.uk/ftpq.html >> >> FreeBSD has been keeping its port of this up to date for a long >> time. However, I've recently split the development into a stable and a >> development branch. Despite warnings all over my web page, you guys have >> taken the unstable 1.10 version for your port. >> >> Please don't do this - stick with 1.04 (needs a similar patch to move >> sys/types.h up the #include order), or wait 24 hours and pull down 1.05, >> which should compile without modification. > > Thanks for letting us know... > >> How can I ensure you take an appropriate stable version in future, whilst >> still releasing very unstable evaluation and development versions? > > Question to the -ports list: > > Is it worth going to the trouble of doing a repo copy and maintaining both > ftpq and ftpq-devel ports, or would it be better simply to downgrade the ftpq > port to 1.05 and bump PORTEPOCH? _______________________________________________________________________ FSmail - Get your free web-based email from Freeserve: www.fsmail.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message