cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/fluxbox Makefile

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (08.11.2004 @ 1335 PST): Jeremy Messenger said, in 1.4K: <<
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:48:30 +0400, Roman Bogorodskiy  
> <bogorodskiy at inbox.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Jeremy wrote:
> >
> >>mezz        2004-08-09 12:53:29 UTC
> >>
> >>  FreeBSD ports repository
> >>
> >>  Modified files:
> >>    x11-wm/fluxbox       Makefile
> >>  Log:
> >>  fluxbox-devel will merging into fluxbox sometime later when 1.0 is  
> >>released,
> >>  so I shall take the maintainership.
> >
> >I think that fluxbox 0.1 should be kept in ports tree when 1.0 will be
> >released, becouse I know really many people who don't like the way in
> >which fluxbox-devel is developing, or maybe like the old style tabs,
> >etc. So, I think when 0.1 will be released, it should be handled in a
> >such way:
> >
> >	fluxbox -> fluxbox01
> >	fluxbox-devel -> fluxbox
> 
> I don't care, I am not going to keep the old Fluxbox. Whomever want to  
> stick with the old Fluxbox, then he/she will _have_ to agree to maintain  
> this port and submit it to PR for the repo copy request. I see no point to  
> keep the old, because it's very unmaintain by the developers.
> 
> The old style tab will be back in as optional that can be switch to new  
> and old style by user's choice. This is what I have heard few weeks ago,  
> but I don't know if it will happen for real.
> 
> BTW: Please don't drop the CC, I rather to see this dicsuss to be open to  
> everyone.
>> end of "Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/fluxbox Makefile" from Jeremy Messenger <<

Anybody who wants the old fluxbox code base can check out the
x11-wm/fluxbox code as it (will have) stood the day before it (will have
been) was overwritten by x11-wm/fluxbox-devel.

There would be many, many, MANY more ports were this type of request
honoured more often than it already is.

I think that Mezz's proposed solution is the right solution in this
situation.

And FWIW, seeing as how the old fluxbox will never get another update, I
really don't think that x11-wm/fluxbox should be kept in the tree any
longer; I think that x11-wm/fluxbox-devel should overwrite
x11-wm/fluxbox immediately. </can of worms>

# Adam


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