Zarafa port

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On 05.02.2012 23:06, rflynn at acsalaska.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started working on a port of Zarafa, following
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts. I'm not sure if I can finish it,
> but I will try my bestest :).
>
> Zarafa has custom patches for libical and libvmime and this is why I
> have opted
> to create 2 supporting ports mail/zarafa-libvmime and 
> devel/zarafa-libical.
>
> I was wondering if there are any objections to doing it that way or 
> that they
> be somehow be merged with the original ports (difficult as specific 
> versions
> are available at Zarafa's site to which the patches apply).
>
> For reference, I have attached the shar for the rough version of
> zarafa-libvmime,
> which currently misses CONFLICTS.
>
> -- Mel

Thanks for starting to work on it! I've added a link from WantedPorts 
to that
mail.

Creating duplicate ports for special patches versions of a library is 
usually
fine. We already have that in some cases where some ports depend on a 
specific
version of a library.

Some projects also ship modified versions of a dependency in their 
tree. Good
examples for that are multimedia applications depending on ffmpeg. When 
they
do a release their modified ffmpeg sources are included in their source
tarball. If that is also the case for zarafa then don't create new 
ports for
that but compile the libraries as part of the zarafa port.

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/