Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:02:43 -0500 From: T Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Richard Cramer <r.cramer@sytex.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interchange port update to V 5.0 Message-ID: <200401012102.44279.kellers@njit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401011225140.32139-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401011225140.32139-100000@pancho>
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On Thursday 01 January 2004 01:28 pm, Mark Linimon wrote: > > Is there an approximate date for upgrading Interchange v4.8 in ports > > to v5.0. > > Short answer: no :-) > > Long answer: the FreeBSD ports collection is maintained completely > by volunteers. If someone volunteers a patch to update the port, > it'll get done. It's no more complicated than that. > > Right now the maintainer is set to "ports@FreeBSD.org" which is > this mailing list -- this is our metatoken for "no maintainer". > > So, if you're using the port, you're the logical next person > to come up with a set of patches :-) > > mcl I just downloaded and installed Interchange 5.0 on my 4.9-STABLE box. The configure script pretty much just worked. I've had it running using the built-in db and PostgresQL 7.3.4 in 2 different installs. Handling the origins of the bsdpan files might be a bit tricky. I'm going to dive into the porter's handbook and see if I might giving porting Interchange a go. It is nice sofvtware. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT
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