Dixit port bad management

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 03 May 2010 21:10:05 +0200
Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03-05-2010 21:00, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Tim A <cxtim at live.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 1) I don't understand why the Textproc/Dixit port is so badly
> >> managed. The program itself is at version 10.4, while your
> >> unprofessional port still stays at version 1.0.1, claiming that
> >> the GCC 4.2 compilation is broken.
> >>
> >> 2) I don't understand either why you don't use Dixit sourceforge
> >> RSS feeds to know when a new version is available.
> >>
> >> 3) I don't understand how your Dixit port points to files which
> >> don't exist anymore.
> >>
> >> 4) I don't understand the suprematism attitude of the maintainers
> >> in charge, who don't give a penny on the programs they are suppose
> >> to maintain. They are only interested in the statistics generated
> >> by their unprofessional ports, but not in their quality.
> > 
> > Tim,
> > 
> > Here's a start. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to fix the rest
> > of the bits; I at least got you past the fun sites change in the
> > extract part, but the path for ${_DB_D} with what's setup in the
> > Makefile differs from reality (the current path is:
> > ${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/project/dixit/dixit_qdb/dixit.qdb.tar.bz2 , not
> > ${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/project/dixit/dixit/10.4/dixit.qdb.tar.bz2 );
> > you probably don't want to pull the potentially out-of-sync zip
> > file from ftp*.freebsd.org , especially because we can decompress a
> > tarball natively without installing archivers/unzip .
> > 
> > I've trimmed out a lot of the fud, but you'll probably have to do
> > some hacking to get the project to work with QT3 or QT4 (hopefully
> > the latter).
> > 
> > The porter's handbook [1] is your guide as well as make(1) [2].
> > 
> > After that, run `make makesum all install ' . Submit a PR with the
> > diffs for all of the files if it works to your liking.
> > 
> Before running 'make install', run 'port test' to see if the port is
> nicely formatted and that the package contents is correct, meaning it
> doesn't leave files behind on uninstall or tries to uninstall files
> which don't exist.

Blah, don't loose the time on this. You won't get any PR anyway.

I committed an update to the port, which almost works in this version
(except the menus, and that might be a question of fonts/locale).

Then tomorrow I'll nicely drop maintainership and schedule it for
deletion, no body being interested in it and me being so unprofessional.

Damn, there goes my record!

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