Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 10:53:29 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: asami@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: excessively long DESCRs Message-ID: <199610130953.KAA00465@vector.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:49:41 MST." <199610120049.RAA22017@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) > > The file pkg/DESCR is supposed to be (quoting from the handbook): ... > I attached a list of files that are longer than 24 lines to this mail, > please see if you can make them nice and concise. ... > 134 mail/exmh/pkg/DESCR _Finally_ ports/mail/exmh/ arrives :-) Over A Year Late !!! I offered an EXMH port before Christmas (December) 1995, & repeat offered it numerous times since. Even if the new official port doesn't conform, mine always has: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/\ src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/generic/./mail/exmh/pkg/DESCR wc -l : 4 lines ! ] EXMH - a TK front end to the MH mail system. Uses X-Windows. ] ] Allows you to use the `vi' or `emacs' editors, ] (whereas `xmh' mandates `emacs') Peter Wemm, who is Maintainer of the new official exmh/ port, might have been saved the effort of writing an exmh port if _someone else_ had not consistently refused to accept my port, starting a year ago. Users would also not have had to wait the year ! There's good bits & bad bits in each of the 2 ports, (mine is a version out of date, as I upgraded it once, then gave up wasting my time. Certain FreeBSD oligarchs have a touch of NIH ~ `Not Written By Us', that has cost FreeBSD a year's wait for a port that still does not conform. but at least Peter Wemm _has_ managed to get us an EXMH, Thanks Peter :-) I'll look at my port, find any improvements that may exist, & mail you diffs based on yours, then delete mine. Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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