Update <graphics/gimp-help> issue

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:16:47 +0900
RyōTa SimaMoto <liangtai.s4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to this list.
> 
> I'm a member of the GIMP Help Documentation Team.
> On early October of last year, we released the new version
> product gimp-help-2.6.0-html, so I edited its port(s).
> 
> Since this version, we had been providing packages in
> ready-to-install packages separated in translated languages.
> Source tarball doesn't exist.  On the contrary,
> Older version was a source tree of XML files.
> 
> I wrote new ports in two approach for construction:
> 1. Update only on the graphics/gimp-help.  User can select
>     languages by the option function.  It is simple, but this way
>     causes its package file to become very bigger than the older
>     version if all languages are included because shared image
>     files are also copied in different paths of each language.
>     about 347MB.
> 2. Separate the port by languages.  In this way, 13 new ports
>     will be added.  <graphics/gimp-help> will be changed to the
>     meta-port, <misc/gimp-help-en> as the main port, and other
>     ports as its slaves.
> 
> Which style is more preferable?  Or you have another ways?

#2
> In the second approach, I don't know how to create 'diff'
> file for updating these port.  The first one is ready to send-pr.

http://ionut.tetcu.info/FreeBSD/How-to-submit-a-diff.txt


Thanks for your work,

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