Date: 31 Jan 2000 15:24:12 -0800 From: Matt Braithwaite <mab@red-bean.com> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/16115: New port: www/aolserver3 AOL's web server Message-ID: <8666w9keoz.fsf@zildjian.hq.alink.net> In-Reply-To: Steve Price's message of "Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:10:14 -0600 (CST)" References: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0001311407140.1504-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:10:14 -0600 (CST), Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> said:
>
> Because I figured we'd never have AOLserver version 2 in the ports
> tree. Having the number there usually signifies that we have more
> than one version of this port in the tree. I don't believe it will
> ever be the case with this port, but I could be wrong.
I can definitely see people wanting to run version 2 binaries in Linux
emulation. The ability to use SSL is very important to some.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:24:56 -0800, Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> said:
>
> There should be no problem with two ports "aolserver2" and "aolserver".
> I would expect that future versions would be more like version 3 than
> 2, so "aolserver" can be neatly upgraded to version 4 or whatever without
> any mess.
In that case, would it make sense for the port to install in
${PREFIX}/*/aolserver rather than ${PREFIX}/*/aolserver3 for
consistency? `aolserver3' is not at all an AOLserver convention; I
made it up purely to try to respect hier(7) a little better.
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Matt Braithwaite, 8A 98 23 A1 E9 DF 98 57 F4 09 A3 00 BC 64 54 A3
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