From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 29 22:25:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E918B16A40B for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp7-g19.free.fr (smtp7-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A6D13C4AA for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (tataz.chchile.org [82.233.239.98]) by smtp7-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CFE55A0; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:25:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (unknown [192.168.1.25]) by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58A69D41F; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:26:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8FFF2405D; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:26:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:26:55 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Cy Schubert Message-ID: <20070129222655.GL64768@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20070129140114.GA64768@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200701291604.l0TG49id012951@cwsys.cwsent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701291604.l0TG49id012951@cwsys.cwsent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: Jeremie Le Hen , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vertical split patch in sysutils/screen X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:25:43 -0000 Hi Cy, On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:04:09AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > A couple of comments. Something like this should be integrated into the > base screen software. screen-devel@gnu.org or screen-users@gnu.org might be > a good place to start. That is the preferred approach. If the greater > screen community does not feel this additional functionality is necessary > and if we the FreeBSD community feel it is, I believe we could implement > this. For something like this we should approach the GNU screen developers > first. > > If we as a FreeBSD community decide to implement this outside of the GNU > screen development community, I'd like to spend some time testing it. > People are free to test it and let me know what they think. > > Firstly though, we should submit this to screen-devel@gnu.org. I would like > to be in the loop when you do submit it to them. Yes, I know the principle of upstream sources and I perfectly agree with you. However, I think the patch have already been brought to attention of screen-devel@gnu.org. The problem is that this patch breaks some features, as described in the "Bugs" section of its webpage [1] and have this not been adopted. I fully understand you don't want to break screen. However I am a user of this patch and I don't care about the broken features, and so does a friend of mine. I supposes there might be other users in this case, so I've made the patch. I would understand if you didn't want to commit this. However if you agree to commit it with a bug warning message, I can correct my patch to add this message in which I will detail the broken features. Please, let me know about your decision. Thank you. Best regards, [1] http://fungi.yuggoth.org/vsp4s/ -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >