ports/61155: [REPOCOPY WAITING] new port: ftp/wget-devel

[Pav Lucistnik]

The following reply was made to PR ports/61155; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, edwin at mavetju.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/61155: [REPOCOPY WAITING] new port: ftp/wget-devel
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:56:24 +0100

 Adding reply from <sf at FreeBSD.org>, who is ftp/wget maintainer,
 rescued from pending/61164:
 
  At Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:15:45 +1100 (EST),
  Edwin Groothuis wrote:
  > devel/wget starts to lag behind the releases of wget.
  > At least with a development version we are able to figure out when
  > it is stable enough to ftp/wget updated.
  
  I don't update it due to at least these two regressions over
  1.8.2_5 port:
   a) wget-1.9.x depends on IPv4-mapped IPv6 address and this is not
      accepted. Fixed in CVS HEAD.
   b) Large file support > 2GB. The author is working on it.
  
  I think the next major release will have both fixed, and 1.9 branch
  has no future. I don't want to recommend 1.9.x to anyone because it
  does not work well over 1.8.2_5, but also don't want to discourage
  dilettantes. :-)
 
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 Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
               <pav at FreeBSD.org>