From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 8 11: 0:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from neptune.psn.net (neptune.psn.net [207.211.58.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D851526C for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:00:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@shadow.blackdawn.com) Received: from 5042-243.008.popsite.net ([209.224.140.243] helo=shadow.blackdawn.com) by neptune.psn.net with esmtp (PSN Internet Service 2.12 #3) id 11ku1r-0003F5-00; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:00:38 -0700 Received: (from will@localhost) by shadow.blackdawn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA54241; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:00:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from will) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19991108122230.G78826@lovett.com> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:00:32 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: Will Andrews From: Will Andrews To: Ade Lovett Subject: Re: Possible change in the Qt port. Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 08-Nov-99 Ade Lovett wrote: > Here's a thought (for QT/QT2 at least). How about creating a qt2-config > script (similar to gtk12-config, glib12-config, gnome-config and the > rest of them) that takes a couple of simple arguments: > > qt2-config --cflags > qt2-config --libs > > etc.. etc.. > > and talk to the QT authors about getting such a script as part of the > base QT system. > > Sure, until such a system is adopted (if at all) by those writing QT > code, things are likely to continue to be a pain in the ass, but it's > probably a good step in the right direction. Great idea.. too bad it's going to be quite some time before such a config script is adopted, if at all (just as you said). :\ >> Granted, it's not _THAT_ difficult, just seems quite an unnecessary >> expenditure, and can seem like a big job when you have 10 or so patches >> (like gnomelibs,xemacs,etc). I probably speak for quite a few of the >> porters around here.. > > Me included :) Probably a good 90% of the effort involved in bringing > up a new version of a GNOME port is hacking the patches when the > Makefile/configure files changed. However, things are made substantially > easier for GNOME with the use of 'gnome-config', the majority of the > hacks are to put most everything (except locale information) under > .../share/gnome/*, instead of just share/* I thank God (I'm an atheist, which makes it even more ironic) every day that I don't have to try to maintain that enormous thing! Same goes for XEmacs, KDE, egcs/gcc-devel, etc. The people maintaining those deserve real credit! ;-) -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message