From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 09:36:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B53516A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:36:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED5343D2D for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:36:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C71B951F49; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:36:20 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Tom Nakamura Message-ID: <20050410093620.GA54508@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1113124895.4417.231517896@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1113124895.4417.231517896@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking Fox-toolkit down into fox10, fox12, fox14, etc? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:36:25 -0000 --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 02:21:35AM -0700, Tom Nakamura wrote: > I was thinking it would be a good idea to break down the fox-toolkit > into 'fox10', 'fox12', 'fox14', and (recently) 'fox15', instead of the > current 'fox' port (which tracks 1.0.x) and 'fox-devel' port (which > tracks 1.4.x). I say this because=20 > 1) 'fox' is rather old, and 'fox-devel' is the development branch which > is extremely new; having fox12 strikes a good balance; > 2) the current version of 'ruby-fox' (fxruby.org) is geared for > fox-1.2.x (which guarantees compatibiltiy), but instead with only a > 'fox' and 'fox-devel', ruby-fox builds with fox-1.4.x, which may > introduce incompatibilities.=20 > any thoughts? Only the versions that are acually useful should be in the ports collection. e.g. if no ports need fox 1.0, it shouldn't be kept. I'd be surprised if there was a need for 4 distinct versions. Kris --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCWPOUWry0BWjoQKURAlzgAKD+drrHoxA0NgAY+GvkxHf3hFg7vgCgt4n3 wufkB/JA668QHocM6ciOCHE= =yuVJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--