ports/143867: [PATCH] math/scilab Update to 5.2.0/unbreak

[Chris Rees]

The following reply was made to PR ports/143867; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chris Rees <utisoft at googlemail.com>
To: bf1783 at gmail.com
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, rfarmer at predatorlabs.net
Subject: Re: ports/143867: [PATCH] math/scilab Update to 5.2.0/unbreak
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:26:35 +0000

 On 13 February 2010 12:37, b. f. <bf1783 at googlemail.com> wrote:
 >>Looks like Rob Farmer (I'm guessing aka b.f.) did a load of the work
 >> I've been doing, and created a load of ports for the dependencies
 >> (more quickly too :S)
 >
 > Why is it that millionaire playboy Rob Farmer, and the Caped Crusader,
 > b.f., have never been seen together, in the same place at the same
 > time? =A0;) =A0No, Rob is his own man, and not (at least that I am aware
 > of) my alter-ego. =A0I guess he didn't know of your own plans for
 > scilab5.
 >
 > I was busy dealing with something else, and haven't submitted the
 > patches for 4.x. =A0Do you want me to do so, or should we just try to
 > get 5.x into the tree?
 >
 
 I don't mind requesting that scilab5 be a different port, or better if
 you were to submit your patches as scilab4, and scilab refers to
 scilab5 if you get what I mean...
 
 That seems to be the usual way of doing it; scilab being the latest version=
 .
 
 Chris