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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:03:12 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>
To:        Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: two branches in Gnome and fbsd response to it
Message-ID:  <19991124100312.B58890@lucifer.bart.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911240852390.26762-100000@sun33>; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 08:57:22AM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911240852390.26762-100000@sun33>

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-On [19991124 09:00], Ariel Burbaickij (Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) wrote:
>Gnome projekt maintains usually two branches of development
>Stable and Beta-releases.The versions supported in /usr/ports
>are afahs development(my particular interess is xchat the version
>supported is 1.3.7 in /usr/ports/irc)I would like to have
>the stable version 1.2.0. Will ports mechanismus support both branches
>or way it is the suggested way to stay STABLE with other projects
>(Gnome gtk and so on)in fbsd enviromnet?

Most ports in /usr/ports have been tested by a large audience and most
of the maintainers of those ports are active within the appropriate
projects.

Most ports have often stable and development ports.  Feel free to submit
ports structures for stable ports if you think that supporting somewhat
development versions in your eyes is bad.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven          Network- and systemadministrator
<asmodai@bart.nl>                      bART Internet Services /
Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70          VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands


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