net/libnet vs net/libnet-devel

Kirill Ponomarew krion at voodoo.oberon.net
Tue May 17 13:16:00 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:32:26PM -0400, Adam McLaurin wrote:
> Is there a particlar reason why we're hanging on to net/libnet v1.0.2a? 
> 
> v1.1.x was started in early 2003, which is when net/libnet-devel was
> introduced. However, according to 
> http://www.packetfactory.net/projects/libnet/ , v1.1.2.1 is the latest
> "stable", and v1.1.3 is the latest "beta".
> 
> Would it make sense to get rid of v1.0.2a, move v1.1.2.1 into
> net/libnet, and upgrade net/libnet-devel to v1.1.3 ?

The problem is, there are too many ports which are still depend on
net/libnet and don't work with development version, since ABI was
changed.

-Kirill


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