Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:19:20 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@freebsd.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org, chuckr@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: removal of outdated a2ps 4.3 or better documentation, that this is old software Message-ID: <20010910091920.A94747@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi ! Could we remove the old a2ps 4.3 port ? Many people read the version number of the newer a2ps "4.13" port as "4.1.3" and come to the wrong conclusion, that they have to install a2ps 4.3 to have the latest and greatest for apsfilter. In fact a2ps 4.3 is quite old and has a different syntax. a2ps 4.3 doesn't work with apsfilter, apsfilter needs/supports only the newer commandline flags of a2ps 4.13. In the last month I know of about 10 issues on my apsfilter mailinglists. One apsfilter customer was really pissed off, since he spend much time trying to fix apsfilter. People are driven mad, since printing of the test page works and then after installation they are not able to print a simple ASCII file. I expect, that most people don't complain on mailinglists and simply quietly discard apsfilter and try cups, magicfilter or whatever. If you do not want to remove the a2ps43 port, then we should at least try to think, what can be done, so that people don't trap into that failure. a) rename a2ps43 into something more reasonable concerning this situation, i.e. a2ps43-old or b) state it out clearly in pkg-comment and pkg-descr in the hope that people at least read this ... Thanks for your cooperation Best regards Andreas /// --=20 Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/ Songs from our band >> 64Bits << http://hometown.aol.com/II64BitsII --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Weitere Infos: siehe http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7nGl3d3o+lGxvbLoRAsBEAJ4grdov7eifMD9FMlSwEfR0TJiJLQCeI0Ac LfB50HnI+UM6Icb47Q9Sa/4= =hOpT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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