Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:45:03 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Peter Hawkins <thepish@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/netscape4-communicator.beta - Imported sources Message-ID: <19980819104503.C10016@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980819215318.5598H-100000@dana.clari.net.au>; from Peter Hawkins on Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 09:58:06PM %2B1000 References: <19980818132848.B27936@nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980819215318.5598H-100000@dana.clari.net.au>
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> Could do and I don't have strong feelings on it but I thought it was > worth identifying the betas and decided to maintain a separate beta > port as netscape places timeouts on the beta and removes the > "professional edition" features so if 4.5 were to be released, it might > be good for the fact to be very obvious? But it is part of the ports lineage. And we don't know when the release will come. The release of 3.0 could be first and they release 4.5 and we release 2.2.8. We don't want our users to have to look for 4.5 in two different places in the ports tree (one having a "beta" on it). > Besides, I could see the two having to have different patches to > configure components not in the beta at some time and so having a > separate beta directory might prove convenient. That is what CVS is for. I don't think we will have both a 4.5 beta and release port active at the same time. > On top of that, the .beta might be the port "watched" by the > leading-edge junkies while the other is "watched" by the > stable-junkies. That is what commit messages are for. Anyway, there won't be both a beta and a stable version of 4.5 at the same time. Remember we are not getting rid of netscape4-communicator. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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