cvs commit: ports/devel/ncurses Makefile pkg-plist

[LI Xin]

Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:14:05PM +0800, LI Xin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Rong-En Fan wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:57:45AM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:16:39AM +0000, Rong-En Fan wrote:
>>>>> rafan       2007-01-05 04:16:39 UTC
>>>>>
>>>>>   FreeBSD ports repository
>>>>>
>>>>>   Modified files:
>>>>>     devel/ncurses        Makefile pkg-plist 
>>>>>   Log:
>>>>>   - Enable terminfo again, can be turned off via WITHOUT_TERMINFO [1]
>>>>>     - Partially address bin/71801
>>>>>     - terminfo and termcap are both enabled by default
>>>> Do you think its time now to upgrade our old system ncurses 5.2 to 
>>>> something more recent like 5.6? Could you handle it, please?
>>> Yes, absolute! Check bin/99807, which is waiting peter@'s reviewing.
>> It might be a good idea to post a "Call for tester" on -current@ or
>> -arch@ with patches.  Also, please let kris@ know the upcoming change so
>> he would be able to give you invaluable feedback from the ports cluster.
> 
> I think calling -arch@ for testers is superfluous, this library does not 
> affects system architecture. Ports cluster perhaps needed or perhaps not 

I agree.  Maybe -arch@ for testers is an overkill.

> because new ncurses _is_ the port now, and tested with other ports. 

I think ports cluster is needed, if there is some ports that depends on
base ncurses (we have years of stale ncurses in base and it's possible
that some ports depends or say, misuse that fact)...  If there is no
API/ABI change in the new ncurses then it would be Ok to just go ahead
and commit the change, however, we have 15K+ ports so making sure is
mostly a safety belt :-)

> Calling -current@, I agree.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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