Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:25:03 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>, utisoft@gmail.com, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/java/jgraphx Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <20100827062503.GA85184@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinwzkmw3%2BkSjddODtzFSCD-5RBb1gU48%2BM6w58E@mail.gmail.com> References: <201008221158.o7MBwce6093897@repoman.freebsd.org> <AANLkTinwzkmw3%2BkSjddODtzFSCD-5RBb1gU48%2BM6w58E@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:32PM -0700, Rob Farmer wrote: > This breaks math/scilab (which is the only dependency in the ports > tree). Unfortunately, the author of jgraphx seems to completely > disregard backwards compatibility and changes the API in virtually > every release. > > I tried to patch Scilab based on their git repository (which has > support for 1.4.0.1), but hundreds of revisions have passed and they > have rearranged their tree a bit and added/removed some files, so it > didn't go well. > > IMHO, we need to either create a separate jgraphx-scilab port or keep > this in sync with Scilab (this is what Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo are > doing). Considering Scilab is the only consumer of jgraphx, it seems having special port would be an overkill. I think we should keep the two in sync, and probably work with upstream maintainers of both projects to improve compatibility and API inheritance in the future. Separate port of jgraphx-scilab is palliative solution, i.e. it simply increases the entropy, not solving the underlying problem. ./danfe
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