From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Feb 16 3:18:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx10.mail.ru (mx10.mail.ru [194.67.57.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340FD37B400; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 03:18:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-237-237.istc.kiev.ua ([193.108.237.237]) by mx10.mail.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #1) id 16c2qn-0006yW-00; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:17:55 +0300 Subject: Re: iconv port: plea for take-over From: Maxim Sobolev Reply-To: sobomax@FreeBSD.org To: Pete Fritchman Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Ade Lovett , Konstantin Chuguev , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG, knu@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20020216001336.B22117@databits.net> References: <20020215232829.GA49008@nagual.pp.ru> <20020216042213.GA54552@nagual.pp.ru> <20020216001336.B22117@databits.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-i5XBzka5XYY5vGOnOx+G" Message-Id: <1013858239.34055.19.camel@notebook> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 16 Feb 2002 13:17:25 +0200 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 --=-i5XBzka5XYY5vGOnOx+G Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [knu@FreeBSD.org added, because some time ago we was one of the proponents for using BSD iconv in instead of GNU one] On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 07:13, Pete Fritchman wrote: > ++ 16/02/02 07:22 +0300 - Andrey A. Chernov: > | On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 21:24:26 -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > |=20 > | > them also work with GNU iconv, then I have no problem in initiating t= he > | > de-orbit burn sequence for the other iconv (and mark as BROKEN=3D"old= iconv" > | > the other ports). > |=20 > | I see no ports which will not works with GNU iconv while they works wit= h=20 > | iconv. Functionally interface it the same and old iconv supports less=20 > | amount of charsets and is buggy (alpha coredumps, i386 dead loops). > |=20 > | I think we can=20 > | 1) Install giconv without g prefix > | 2) Mark iconv as BROKEN > | 3) Let corresponding port maintainers remove 'g' prefix hack patches. >=20 > Sounds good to me. So as to me, though instead of marking BSD iconv broken IMO it would be better to install all its components with `b' prefix (i.e. libiconv --> libbiconv, iconv.h --> biconv.h etc), so that all packages that are happy with BSD iconv are still able to use it. -Maxim --=-i5XBzka5XYY5vGOnOx+G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA8bj+/oNu5t4iCBa8RAodkAJ9Bhgeu1r9p0GY0/XllznIcKd6+bQCePmaF xUl+gv61AmqAXN+0/Fn9rA4= =QCHX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-i5XBzka5XYY5vGOnOx+G-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message