Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:05:57 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANN: Jakarta Tomcat 4 now in www/jakarta-tomcat Message-ID: <20020403080557.A41726@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020402170749.J416@straylight.oblivion.bg>; from roam@ringlet.net on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:07:49PM %2B0300 References: <200204012215.AAA01615@smtp.hccnet.nl> <20020402180420.C39054@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020402162910.A550@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20020402215517.A78205@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020402170749.J416@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:07:49PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:55:17PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
[...]
> > There are 2 points I'd like to bring up with this:
> >
> > 1. Quite a few ports have the major-version appended to
> > their names. eg: qt, jdk, apache, gtk. Why not follow existing
> > convention?
> > 2. It saves on the repo-copy when we move up to Tomcat 5.
>
> When you say 'it saves on the repo-copy', do you mean that there should
> NOT be a repo-copy when we move up to Tomcat 5?
What I'm suggesting is to rename jakarta-tomcat to jakarta-tomcat4.
It saves on the bureaucracy involved when we have to do a repo-copy
when we move to jakarta-tomcat5.
>This is something that
> I do not really agree with; repocopies are done to preserve a port's
> history, and IMHO most of the Tomcat 5 port will still be based on
> the Tomcat 4 one; thus, it should keep at least some of the Tomcat 4
> port history. Ergo, a repocopy *should* be done, at least IMHO :)
The history is still there, it's in the tomcat3 port. tomcat4's
history will still be in tomcat4 when we move to tomcat5. What you're
suggesting just consumes disk-space, and doesn't gain us anything.
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