Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Lars =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= <lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/20975: update math/grace Message-ID: <200009180750.AAA87973@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/20975; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Lars =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= <lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de> To: AMAKAWA Shuhei <sa264@cam.ac.uk> Cc: lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de, sobomax@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, lkoeller@cc.fh-lippe.de, lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de Subject: Re: ports/20975: update math/grace Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:41:10 +0200 ---------- In reply to AMAKAWA Shuhei who wrote: = > Hello. > I saw your PR. > I can speculate about some of the reasons why your PR hasn't been > committed. > The biggest problem I think was this (among other things). > The new pdflib has a restrictive license and it's probably > unacceptable to build it in unconditionally. Ok, ok but then I expect to get a hint on this problem, however is = grace not very usable without pdf support (no working pdflatex to = compile native pdf documents)!! > (by the way pdflib3 port seems to be available now) This was not the case 6 weeks before > It is unlikely your PR is going to be committed. > How about sending a revised PR with an update to grace-5.1.2? > Any comments, committers? That's what I mean, now I have to redo nearly any of the work again = =2E.... not very motivating .... But we can talk about this if there is someone who will check/ commit my PR soon, and not after 6-8 weeks .... = I'm sure you can imagine, that there is more to do than porting for = /dev/null ;-) regards Lars -- = E-Mail: \ Lars K=F6ller (Unix Sysadmin) Lars.Koeller@Uni-Bielefeld.DE \ Computing Center lkoeller@cc.FH-Lippe.DE \ University of Bielefeld PGP-key: \ Germany http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/www-key.html \ Tel: +49 521 106 4964 ----------- FreeBSD, what else? ---- http://www.freebsd.org -------------= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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