Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:24:39 -0400 From: Jim Trigg <jtrigg@spamcop.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports - dovecot Message-ID: <AANLkTinJtgB=Ew9pTa_oaa0sZfos4JFWC4guQU_07WM=@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100824160448.2ee7515a@seibercom.net> References: <4C741399.1050105@interia.pl> <20100824160448.2ee7515a@seibercom.net>
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Jerry <freebsd-ports.user@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:46:49 +0200 > DZIOBAK <dziobak84@interia.pl> articulated: > >> Could you please tell me when can be released dovecot-1.2.14 and >> dovecot-2.0.1? The versions 1.2.13 and 2.0.0 are released for couple >> of weeks, but ports are not created. > > While releasing the former into the ports system is a worthwhile goal, > it would be a mistake IMHO to do the same for the latter. The software > author is releasing on what appears to be an almost hourly schedule, > patches to the base program. Until it stabilizes, I would not recommend > releasing it into the wild. If it has as many problems as it appears to > on the system it was written on, one can only imagine what sort of > problems await FreeBSD users. I think it would be perfectly reasonable to release it as dovecot-devel (which is currently DEPRECATED because it's lagging behind the main dovecot port). Jim
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