Dixit port bad management

[Tim A]

Hi Matthias,


Thank you for the email and your efforts. 

I have no problem with anything.  Otherwise, your logic is wrong. At least one person was interested. 
Best,
Tim 
 
> Subject: Fwd: Re: Dixit port bad management
> To: cxtim at live.com
> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 09:36:33 +0200
> From: matthias.andree at gmx.de
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I am writing this just so the announcement doesn't get lost and double 
> effort is wasted... please see below, unless you've seen it on the list 
> already. For further discussion, please continue using the 
> ports at freebsd.org mailing list.
> 
> HTH
> Matthias
> (mandree at freebsd.org)
> 
> ------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------
> Von: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu at freebsd.org>
> An: "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan at gmail.com>
> Kopie: ports at freebsd.org, "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd at gmail.com>
> Betreff: Re: Dixit port bad management
> Datum: Mon, 03 May 2010 22:01:27 +0200
> 
> 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!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Andree
 		 	   		  
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