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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:04:38 -0500
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Problems maintaining my ports
Message-ID:  <38B59CE6.DE9D1697@asme.org>

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Hello;

I had a problem with the modem on my FreeBSD box and I will be unable to
do real maintainance on my ports :-(. Please feel free to submit/commit
new changes without asking me.

I sent PRs regarding some issues that can be fixed without my
intervention, however I wanted to comment on certain issues:

- crosssco port: My idea was to upgrade this to gcc-2.8.1 and probably
maintain the newlib apart for the basic crosscompiler (like Jerry Hicks
did on his m68k cross kit). 1386-coff could be used to build SCO
compatibility libraries, but this is probably not something important
anymore. Unless someone objects this port (and scogdb) should be nuked,
or at least labelled NO_CDROM.

- GNU ghostscript: I received some exciting news from Martin
Lottermoser:
> 
> Thank you very much for making hpdj available in FreeBSD! This has
> probably contributed significantly to hpdj becoming known which in turn
> has led people to ask Peter Deutsch why hpdj was not included in the
> ghostscript distribution which has finally led to him approaching me
> in December last year which in turn :-) has led to him promising that
> it will be included in the near future (it was too late for gs 6.0).

If the same build scheme (keeping the fonts as an independent
distribution) is adopted for the post 6.0 Alladin ghostscript, then I
see no reason to keep GNU ghostscript in the ports tree: Alladin's
license is not significantly restricted respect to the GPL.

-Willows twin: this port shoul be nuked as soon as twine is included in
the tree. The reason are explained in twin's DESCR file. 

- FElt: It seems like FEA programs are having a comeback :-). There is a
new ftp site and WWW page that I will submit RSN as a PR. A new version
fixing the problems on more than 8 bpp will be released.

-atlast: This is very buggy, but curiously it only fails on gcc, FWIW
building it with tcc produces good binaries ! 

Don't worry about these issues :-) I have had great fun porting FreeBSD
stuff during this years, and when I overcome minor this glitch I will
probably continue (at an even slower rate though).

thanks,

    Pedro.



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