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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2012 04:36:52 -0400
From:      "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: MATE 'base' desktop is ready for anyone to test it.
Message-ID:  <6B.46.24305.426F4105@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>

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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

>Hello all,

>The MATE base desktop (x11/mate-base) is ready to use and test. ...
>... To get it, you will need to grab
>marcusmerge script from http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge
>then run 'sh marcusmerge -m ports-experimental'.

Doug Barton responded:

>This is a great example of where a ports projects/ branch in svn would
>be very helpful. :)

I agree, either projects/, experimental/, wip/ or something like that for a testing branch.

NetBSD pkgsrc has a pkgsrc-wip (Work In Progress) branch separate from pkgsrc tree, at
pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net

FreeBSD users could then try out testing/beta versions of ports and give feedback.

Tom



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