Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 03:01:52 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <199708021001.DAA11295@blimp.mimi.com> In-Reply-To: <199708020925.TAA00380@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> (message from David Nugent on Sat, 02 Aug 1997 19:25:20 %2B1000)
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* 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? You are correct. Actually, as I just mentioned in the other message, if you build the ports on the pre-tcl-8.0beta2-current system, everything will just work. (Everything except flat-out broken stuff, I mean.) By the way, I think David (O'Brien, that is) is also interested, he raised his hands last time I asked for someone to build 2.2-packages...we were waiting for admin1 to come back online, and now I'm on the 2.2 side, so maybe he can work on -current with you. Whatever happens on the tcl front (and whether the ports tree will restart officially supporting -current) , I think it's a good idea to have someone else building -current packages. I don't intend to go back to building them until at least after 2.2.5 is released. By the way^2, I have been thinking for awhile about signing the packages with pgp, maybe it's a good time to start that now, since there will be packages from multiple origins. (Let's compare notes on this in private mail, no need to bore others with the ittsy bitsy details.) * I thought we were ramping up to remove it. You can imagine my surprise * to see the 8.0 beta committed. :-/ Me too. * 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. Well, that's not the whole story. You have to do that without breaking 2.2-stable compatibility. There are some ports that require some private headers and stuff. This is where I gave up. Satoshi
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