Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:10:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>, bwoods2@uswest.net, Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: kdelibs port broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002271109260.301-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000227234325.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 27-Feb-00 Chuck Robey wrote: > > fine example, tho. We break the location of the config files that all > > tcl > > packages rely upon to build, for the purpose of allowing folks to run > > multiple versions simultaneously. Tcl isn't the only one like that, > > either. Anyone who wants to be able to build other tcl software that > > isn't derived from a port would be well advised to avoid using our port. > > This is done because none of those programs/libs developed a system on > their own which allowed multiple versions to be on the same machine OR > made SURE that they where backward compatible.. > > Its not the ports collection thats at fault, the people who did it this > way are cleaning up the mess made by other coders. > > This happens for tcl, gtk, qt.. There are quite a number. (at least 3! ;) Can I ask you, why could this not have been done through a system of symlinks and a little batch-file to switch them? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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