From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 24 15:39:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (mail.tgd.net [209.81.25.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1953F37B400 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.tgd.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9A3AC20F02; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:39:03 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Erik Trulsson Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/39808: Update x11-toolkits/xforms to 0.89 Message-ID: <20020624153903.D30655@ninja1.internal> References: <20020624221939.48EE0D124A@rand.tgd.net> <20020624223441.GA2578@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020624223441.GA2578@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>; from "ertr1013@student.uu.se" on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at = 12:34:41AM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The patch below updates xforms to 0.89, but potentially breaks > > alpha builds given that the XForms hasn't released any alpha builds, > > but I'm not sure if it's possible to build from src. This entire > > package seems arcane and super old/out of date. > > It was updated to 0.89 once previously but was then downgraded again. > The commit message at the time was: > > revision 1.38 > date: 2001/03/02 18:44:38; author: sobomax; state: Exp; lines: +8 -10 > On i386 downgrade to 0.88 because 0.89 is buggy and segfaults very too often. > > Submitted by: Mike Heffner > > So changing to 0.89 might not be a good idea. xforms is a disaster, IMHO and I'm glad LyX is moving away from it (I don't know if there is any other software that uses it at this point) and suports gnome/kde in the latest release. > > PORTNAME= xforms > > -PORTVERSION= 0.88 > > -PORTEPOCH= 1 > > Once PORTEPOCH has been set it should *never* be removed or decreased. I thought you could if the version num increased. What a PITA. ::sigh:: Ah well. Thx. -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message