svn commit: r371758 - in head/games/djgame2: . files

[John Marino]

On 10/31/2014 09:02, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
> John Marino wrote on 31.10.2014 10:31:
>> On 10/31/2014 01:33, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
>>> * John Marino (freebsd.contact at marino.st) wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Author: amdmi3
>>>>> Date: Thu Oct 30 16:26:32 2014
>>>>> New Revision: 371758
>>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/371758
>>>>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r371758/
>>>>>
>>>>> Log:
>>>>>    - Fix build by explicitly linking with -lX11
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's great that the games@ team can manage to rescue this controversial
>>>> port from the death twice, but can't find the time to address PR 194061
>>>> to answer if the port can be used at all.
>>>
>>> I've already written in the PR: since you've submitted it, please
>>> provide additional info by checking whether the games works - it
>>> should be trivial. No, games@ is not obliged to do investigation
>>> instead of you. In fact, there's no games@ team as such.
>>
>> That is absolute bull****.
>> If a member of games@ revives a port under the games@ maintainership,
>> you bet that he and the entire games@ team is responsible for ensuring
>> the port is valid *BEFORE* resurrecting it.
>>
>> Not checking it was bad.  Not checking it after multiple people objected
>> immediately to the revival of the port on the basis of it's possible
>> invalidity is indefensible.  Ruslan is obligated to do it, and since
>> he's refusing to, it becomes games@ teams obligation to do it.  If you
>> think it's not, then I'd like games@ to stop picking up unmaintained
>> ports because it's not helping at all.  Seriously, thanks.
>>
>> John
> 
> I believe you actually mean not Ruslan here :).
> 
> So, here is how it going. I installed the djgame2 port, run it.
> I get a window that asking me to login. I have no account so I'm
> clicking register instead. This directs me to
> http://www.bluedj.com/register.php that isn't working.
> 
> Ok, lets close the login window and just try to select some games.
> Clicking on "General Chess Games", getting "getting game list" window
> with subsequent "connection timed out" window.
> 
> Alas, let's clean not-working stuff out.

Yes, I apologize, I meant Rusmir.
Thanks for verifying that the port should indeed have been removed
again, Ruslan.

John