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Date:      Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:24:12 +1100
From:      Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/45178: Maintainer update: net/spread
Message-ID:  <20021204232412.GA6954@roughtrade.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021117061450.GS33758@roughtrade.net>
References:  <200211162234.gAGMYV7s073002@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021117013054.GR33758@roughtrade.net> <20021117025832.GE50581@k7.mavetju> <20021117061450.GS33758@roughtrade.net>

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On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:14:50PM +1100, Joshua Goodall wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:58:32PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > The reason why I put it in was because there is no way I can download
> > this file from the official site without having fill in a form.
> > Although I understand your effort in making it downloadable via
> > alternative channels (which makes it easier for automatic checking
> > et al), I don't think it's fair to the original authors who wanted
> > to have this limitation.
> 
> I'm not sure they're too sensitive about it.  I'd like to have
> Spread continue to appear as a package, so I'll ask the authors
> directly (they don't bite :)) if they're comfortable with external
> distribution for our purposes (as their license implies).

Hi,

Please consider the following an acceptance by the authors, and set
MASTER_SITES=	http://www.roughtrade.net/distfiles/
accordingly! (and remove the IGNORE=)

I believe such a commit will be in line with the current freeze
exception.

There is a performance issue with spread on 5.0 which I will need
to resolve shortly, but I think this needs to go in ASAP.

Secondly, what happened to the split Java library port ?
It desperately wanted to be committed with the maintainer update,
because the previous port had it "built in".  Can we obtain a 
special dispensation ?

Regards,
Joshua.

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:32:34AM -0500, Jonathan Stanton wrote:
> I can tell you that we have decided to offer the download like you
> describe. I just won't be able to have it up realistically until next
> week as I'm out of town all day thursday and friday.
>
> If you can host it until then, if that is needed I'd appreciate it. Is
> this what you need?
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:29:28PM +1100, Joshua Goodall wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:24:49AM -0500, Jonathan Stanton wrote:
> > > Ok. We would like to encourage Spread's inclusion in OS distributions --
> > > Even if we don't know about them it gets it out to lots of people and if
> > > they use it, they will come to our website anyway for updates and
> > > information. I'm also hoping to get a 3.17.1 out in the next week or so,
> > > so I'll try to make the new download available at the same time. Does
> > > that work for you?
> >
> > I know I'm spamming you here :) but... FreeBSD 5.0 just entered
> > "ports freeze", pending the release intended for Dec 15.  If we can
> > get it to autobuild very soon (via an open download) then a Spread
> > binary package will be included in FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE.
> >
> > If it's ok with you I can temporarily host the tarball, but I need a
> > definite acceptance before the Project will ok it.
> >
> > Joshua.
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Jonathan R. Stanton         jonathan@cs.jhu.edu
> Dept. of Computer Science
> Johns Hopkins University
> -------------------------------------------------------

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