Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:27:31 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> Cc: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: two branches in Gnome and fbsd response to it Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911241224340.26886-100000@sun33> In-Reply-To: <19991124100312.B58890@lucifer.bart.nl>
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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -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. I do not want to argue with you just go and see the version in Makefile of xchat in actual port collection and after that go and see the official status of xchat1.3.7 on gnome site i guess it will solve some misunderstandings. Regards > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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