Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 19:25:20 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <199708020925.TAA00380@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 23:01:28 MST." <199708010601.XAA18505@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> As many you have undoubtedly noticed, I am in the process of building > packages for 2.2-stable and copying them to ftp.freebsd.org's new > packages-stable directory. I will also move the ports tree on the ftp > site from under "FreeBSD-current" to somewhere else to avoid > confusion, and remove the "ports-current" symbolic link. The > packages-current directory will eventually be deleted too (unless some > kind soul steps forward to build them for me). Someone mentioned recently that thud is being rebuilt and will be put on-line with some version of -current. If this is the case, I'll be happy to take on this task there. I'm assuming it is a case of building and finding out where it falls over and fixing it, correct? > This is truly a sad day. The irony of this all is that it really > didn't have to happen, and it would have been possible for us to > support both 3.0-current and 2.2-stable if more consideration has been > made before some commits into -current. For instance, there is no > reason why tcl-8.0beta2 had to go into the tree now, whether the tree > is called -current or not. It is dubbed BETA of all things on the > master site, and we haven't even had it in our ports area to test it. > As some people have noted, there is no matching tk version in our > ports tree either. The latest incident just reinforces my belief that > it was a mistake in the first place to include something like tcl in > the base distribution (note that it was also done without consensus > back then), and one we may regret for a long time to come. I thought we were ramping up to remove it. You can imagine my surprise to see the 8.0 beta committed. :-/ I guess, my first task, should I decide to accept it, is to figure out how to cope with tcl8 in the source tree and tcl7.5 in ports. Regards, David
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