Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:17:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xview-clients port and the bento log Message-ID: <20030930041758.39271.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030928155956.GA89851@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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I'll be working on cleaning the Xview mess and probably also merging xview and
xview-clients. The other BSDs have done some level of cleaning, but I want to
do more :).
FWIW, if someone feels like working on this, there's a nice application that
would look nice in the ports tree:
Robot - a scientific open-source graph plotting and data analysis tool
http://www.robotx.cx/
cheers,
Pedro.
--- Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:37:10AM -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
...
> >
> > Your patch is an option, another one is merging xview-clients into xview. I
> > think the best would be to do something like ghostscript-x11 does, merge
> the
> > xview-clients patches into the xview port and add the Clients target from
> the
> > xview-clients port.
>
> Yes, that would probably be the best solution. My patch is more of a
> temporary workaround that can be used until somebody comes up with a
> proper fix.
>
> There can't be too many people around who use the xview port without
> also using the xview-clients port so merging the ports sounds like a
> good idea.
>
> >
> > Yeah, it's quite a job and it has to be done with some care.
>
> Indeed. I am not volunteering. :-) At least for the near future I
> don't have the time ncecessary to do it.
>
>
> --
> <Insert your favourite quote here.>
> Erik Trulsson
> ertr1013@student.uu.se
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