From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 18 0:50: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C774B37B423 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id AAA87973; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009180750.AAA87973@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Lars =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= Subject: Re: ports/20975: update math/grace Reply-To: Lars =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/20975; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Lars =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= To: AMAKAWA Shuhei Cc: lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de, sobomax@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, lkoeller@cc.fh-lippe.de, lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de Subject: Re: ports/20975: update math/grace Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:41:10 +0200 ---------- In reply to AMAKAWA Shuhei who wrote: = > Hello. > I saw your PR. > I can speculate about some of the reasons why your PR hasn't been > committed. > The biggest problem I think was this (among other things). > The new pdflib has a restrictive license and it's probably > unacceptable to build it in unconditionally. Ok, ok but then I expect to get a hint on this problem, however is = grace not very usable without pdf support (no working pdflatex to = compile native pdf documents)!! > (by the way pdflib3 port seems to be available now) This was not the case 6 weeks before > It is unlikely your PR is going to be committed. > How about sending a revised PR with an update to grace-5.1.2? > Any comments, committers? That's what I mean, now I have to redo nearly any of the work again = =2E.... not very motivating .... But we can talk about this if there is someone who will check/ commit my PR soon, and not after 6-8 weeks .... = I'm sure you can imagine, that there is more to do than porting for = /dev/null ;-) regards Lars -- = E-Mail: \ Lars K=F6ller (Unix Sysadmin) Lars.Koeller@Uni-Bielefeld.DE \ Computing Center lkoeller@cc.FH-Lippe.DE \ University of Bielefeld PGP-key: \ Germany http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/www-key.html \ Tel: +49 521 106 4964 ----------- FreeBSD, what else? ---- http://www.freebsd.org -------------= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message