Unmaintained ports [was: Re: Unmaintained ports with fetch errors]

[Pav Lucistnik]

Michael C. Shultz píše v po 14. 02. 2005 v 14:05 -0800:
> On Monday 14 February 2005 02:01 pm, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:39:27 +0100, Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org> 
> wrote:
> > > Michael C. Shultz píše v po 14. 02. 2005 v 13:24 -0800:
> > >> Mark, I'd love to take over gettext.  The way that one is packaged
> > >> has annoyed me for ages. Do I just submit a PR taking over
> > >> maintainership or do I wait until someone gives the ok?
> > >
> > > Uhh, how exactly you want to change gettext port?
> 
> I intend to eliminate it running configure in all the subdirectories.

Will it buy us anything except lower build time, and will it account for
the raise of complexicity of the port?

> > > It's one of the core ports, ports such important even no brave
> > > knight of the round table ever dare to claim maintainership on it
> 
> Chickens ;)

Dare to break it. You'd be a dead man.

> Well I think I can handle it and I will happily submit changes to
> anyone who wants to see them for themselves before hand.

I'd expect a test-run of all ports on build cluster would be needed for
any major change to gettext port.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

Shop at the Mobius Strip Mall: Always on the same side of the street!
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