Resolve joe/joe-devel ports

[Danny Pansters]

Top posting because it seems suitable in this case...

I love and use joe as my editor of choice (first port/pkg I install on a new 
box, then change EDITOR to joe), and I've never used joe-devel, but I'd 
suggest in the light of what you're saying about joe's original developer 
that obliterating the old joe and having editors/joe just be the new one 
(formerly joe-devel) seems to be the right thing to do. And the easiest for 
you. 

Bite the bullet sooner rather than later I'd say. Change it immediately and 
don't look back. People are going to complain anyway. 

Just my EUR 0.02, 

Regards,

Dan


On Friday 06 May 2005 23:26, Kevin Day wrote:
> A bit of history about the "joe" editor ports...
>
> Around 5 years ago, I took over maintaining the "editors/joe" port.
> 2.8 was the most recent version then, and editors/joe hasn't been
> updated since.
>
> A few years after the release of 2.8, 2.9.xx and 3.xx versions of joe
> started appearing on sourceforge.  Joseph Allen (joe's developer) had
> told me that 2.8 was the most recent "official" version of joe. He
> didn't mind the fork, but said that he planned on returning to
> develop the official branch of joe later.
>
> Eventually the 3.xx branches of joe started adding desirable
> features. I didn't want to mess with the official "editors/joe" port,
> since the changes were made on an unofficial fork, and the main
> branch was supposed to start being developed again. So, "editors/joe-
> devel" was created to track the 3.xx fork on Sourceforge.
>
>
> Fast forward to today, now. Joseph Allen has now joined the
> sourceforge project, and says that the 2.9 and 3.x branches on there
> are now the official versions, and that 2.8 should be phased out.
>
> This is what I'd propose:
>
> Rename editors/joe to editors/joe2  and upgrade it to joe 2.9  (2.9
> is functionally the same as 2.8, but comes with some bug fixes and a
> better install/configure system)
> Rename editors/joe-devel to editors/joe and upgrade it to 3.2  (it's
> currently 2 months behind the current version, at 3.1)
>
>
>
> I'm the "joe" maintainer, and Pete (cc'ed) is the joe-devel maintainer.
>
>
> Any thoughts/comments?
>
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