ports/164012: [patch] x11/dmenu version upgrade 4.5 and Xft support

Mon Jan 30 12:30:21 UTC 2012

The following reply was made to PR ports/164012; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Scheidell <scheidell at FreeBSD.org>
To: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>, <aragon at phat.za.net>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/164012: [patch] x11/dmenu version upgrade 4.5 and Xft support
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:29:14 -0500

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 Question to submitter, and maintainer:
 Anti-aliasing support was added as a option knob, with default On.  For 
 upward compatibility, and so there are no additional 
 features/ports/packages/files for someone updating, should this be 
 default off?

 Or, is does it add significantly more functionality that 75% or more of 
 the current users will want?

 If submitter can explain the benefits (for the ports audit logs), and 
 maintainer agrees, then we would leave default on.
 Mostly, this is a question of upwards compatibility vs significant 
 additional functionality.

 -- 
 Michael Scheidell, CTO
  >*| * SECNAP Network Security Corporation
 d: +1.561.948.2259
 w: http://people.freebsd.org/~scheidell

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     Question to submitter, and maintainer:<br>
     Anti-aliasing support was added as a option knob, with default On. 
     For upward compatibility, and so there are no additional
     features/ports/packages/files for someone updating, should this be
     default off?<br>
     <br>
     Or, is does it add significantly more functionality that 75% or more
     of the current users will want?<br>
     <br>
     If submitter can explain the benefits (for the ports audit logs),
     and maintainer agrees, then we would leave default on.<br>
     Mostly, this is a question of upwards compatibility vs significant
     additional functionality.<br>
     <br>
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       Michael Scheidell, CTO<br>
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       SECNAP Network Security Corporation<br>
       d: +1.561.948.2259<br>
       w: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.freebsd.org/~scheidell">http://people.freebsd.org/~scheidell</a>
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