Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:27:40 +0200 From: Robbin Habermehl <robbin@habermehl.net> To: Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> Cc: "gnome@freebsd.org" <gnome@freebsd.org>, "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports: cairo-1.10.2_4,2 & poppler-utils-0.18.4_1 Message-ID: <-5839691990088707133@unknownmsgid> In-Reply-To: <508ABF1B.7000501@rainbow-runner.nl> References: <FD6963B8-681E-4DF3-B57C-4B9D639DABCD@habermehl.net> <508ABDA4.8000508@freebsd.org> <508ABF1B.7000501@rainbow-runner.nl>
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That sounds reasonable, thanks for the update! Regarding Cairo; wouldn't it be possible to publish multiple port versions of it? I noticed the same thing was done for FFmpeg. Regards, Robbin Op 26 okt. 2012 om 18:49 heeft Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> het volgende geschreven: > On 26-10-2012 18:43, Niclas Zeising wrote: >> On 10/26/12 18:15, Robbin Habermehl wrote: >>> Dear Sir/Madam, >>> >>> As Cairo and Poppler (and Poppler-utils) have been updated regularly th= e last couple of months the available FreeBSD ports have become kind of out= dated. The current port versions are 1.10.2 for Cairo and 0.18.4 for Popple= r (and Poppler-utils), while the current versions are 1.12.6 and 0.20.5 res= pectively. >>> >>> Both applications have been improved tremendously with these updates, s= o for most users these most recent versions are quite essential. Would you = please be so kind therefore to port these latest versions and make them ava= ilable to FreeBSD? Thanks in advance! >>> >>> With best regards, >>> >>> Robbin Habermehl >> >> Hi! >> Currently we are in a freeze pending the release of FreeBSD 9.1. Both po= ppler and cario are dependencies on a lot of ports, and therefore it is not= a good idea to update them right before a release, in case something break= s. >> Regards! > > Poppler update will happen after the 9.1-R is out. Cairo is much harder s= ince the new version exposes serious bugs in some xorg drivers that are ver= y hard to fix. > > -Koop
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