ports/87564: Port upgrade: gtkextra-0.99.17_1

[Rob]

--- Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:15:46 -0700 (PDT)
> Rob <spamrefuse at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > --- Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Synopsis: Port upgrade: gtkextra-0.99.17_1
> > > 
> > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > > State-Changed-By: jylefort
> > > State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 21 04:35:28 GMT 2005
> > > State-Changed-Why: 
> > > Committed (as new port x11-toolkits/gtkextra2)
> > > with a few modifications, thanks!
> > 
> > Thank you for brushing the patch up for me.
> > This was my first ports patch.
> > 
> > Actually, gtkextra is developed for scigraphica,
> > and only scigraphica depends on gtkextra.
> > Both software have the same key-developer.
> > 
> > The current version of scigraphica in the ports is
> > terribly out-of-date.
> > 
> > So I bet that it would be sufficient to simply
> > replace gtkextra (old) by gtkextra (new); and mark
> > scigraphica 'broken' for the time being, or
> > something.
> > No need for having both gtkextra and gtkextra2
> > in the ports.
> > 
> > As soon as I find the upgraded gtkextra in the
> > ports, I will use that for upgrading the
> > scigraphica port (ports has now 0.7, newest
> > release is 2.1).
> 
> It is better to keep both ports in case people still
> need the 1.x
> branch. Please use gtkextra2 for your work.

The "old" gtkextra which is in the ports at the
moment, is actually 0.99.17, a kind of beta release.
I still think you're safe, by letting that one
go and simply pushing it up to the latest version.
Soon, the new scigraphica will be committed, as
Michael Johnson is working on it right now.

Rob.



	
		
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