From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 16:18:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA4CB62 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:18:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23ED01E7 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.17]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lg2yr-1TFVbj2v3j-00peJq for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:18:52 +0100 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Jan 2013 16:18:52 -0000 Received: from f049032222.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO mandree.no-ip.org) [78.49.32.222] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 03 Jan 2013 17:18:52 +0100 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/4wW9sO3/4LZKaZWVUEtoxMADjawBZwzHOE/DdIR bZ326pywRPHGhN Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3746923CEAA for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 17:18:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <50E5AF6B.3050800@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:18:51 +0100 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating "fetchmail" References: <20130103064430.3a890db7@scorpio> <20130103150430.GA90000@calvin.home.crhalpin.org> <20130103103728.64519d27@scorpio> <20130103154622.GB90000@calvin.home.crhalpin.org> In-Reply-To: <20130103154622.GB90000@calvin.home.crhalpin.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:18:54 -0000 Am 03.01.2013 16:46, schrieb Corey Halpin: > On 2013-01-03, Jerry wrote: >> Thanks for the feedback. When the 6.x branch is abandoned in favor of >> the 7.x branch, which I tend to believe is not that far off, will you >> then be creating a 7.x port? > > When 7.x becomes the supported release, rather than a pre-release alpha, > then mail/fetchmail will be upgraded to 7.x. > > My intention is to maintain mail/fetchmail at the supported release version. > When that's not 6.x anymore, then the port won't be 6.x anymore, either. > > If there's some missing feature in 7.x which has people wanting a 6.x port > as well, then I'll likely create mail/fetchmail6 at that point. Now is the time to look at and speak up if any important feature was abolished. I have not obsoleted features younger than, say, 10 years, yet, so we should have few complaints about 7.0.0-alpha4 over 6.3.24. :) Note that I expect MAPI support to _NOT_ materialize in spite of a Google Summer of Code contribution, due to lack of support from the contributor and the audience.