From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 27 8:11:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3ECD37B654 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:11:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17930; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:10:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:10:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Maxim Sobolev , bwoods2@uswest.net, Joel Ray Holveck , Will Andrews , Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: kdelibs port broken? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 27-Feb-00 Chuck Robey wrote: > > fine example, tho. We break the location of the config files that all > > tcl > > packages rely upon to build, for the purpose of allowing folks to run > > multiple versions simultaneously. Tcl isn't the only one like that, > > either. Anyone who wants to be able to build other tcl software that > > isn't derived from a port would be well advised to avoid using our port. > > This is done because none of those programs/libs developed a system on > their own which allowed multiple versions to be on the same machine OR > made SURE that they where backward compatible.. > > Its not the ports collection thats at fault, the people who did it this > way are cleaning up the mess made by other coders. > > This happens for tcl, gtk, qt.. There are quite a number. (at least 3! ;) Can I ask you, why could this not have been done through a system of symlinks and a little batch-file to switch them? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message