Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: ports/5821: Swish-e port Message-ID: <199802242340.PAA07577@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/5821; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: Ian Vaudrey <i.vaudrey@bigfoot.com>
Cc: "'doconnor@gsoft.com.au'" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>,
"FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: ports/5821: Swish-e port
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:03:01 +1030
> I think that this might be one of those ports that we should
> make our own tarball for. This should include the manual page
> from the Swish-E web site and possibly a copy of the GPL. I'd
> also like to see it include at least one of the rather nice
> animated gifs located at the web site, but I admit this is
> icing on the cake.
Hmm.. I don't know.. Perhaps you could write a html to man converter, and then
get the document web page via fetch and convert it =)
Seriously though I think that its a good idea to add the extra stuff you
mentioned, esp the license.. (although it didn't come with the source tarball
I downloaded, which IMHO, violates the GNU license doesn't it?)
> The comment and descr files could do with some work, comment
> is supposed to be a single sentence describing the port while
> descr refers to autoswish, which you haven't ported (wisely,
> I think - it may constitute a security hole).
Hey, the comment is one line.. Its just long :)
I just ripped the desc from the web page, and forgot to remove the Autoswish
stuff.. Sorry :-/
> There are other cgi-type ports tied to apache, so I think a
> port of one of the search scripts that use Swish-E (e.g.
> ftp://qz.to/pub/search.cgi) would not be too specific and
> would make the Swish-E port more obviously useful. This
> would be a separate port, though.
Yes, as it stands the swish-e port is pretty much useless without those
scripts, which is why I said so in the comment - although I think we should
hassle the people who distribute it to make there tarball more useful :-/
> Finally, the current version of Swish-E has a bug that can
> make it crash in certain circumstances: here is a description
> of the problem and a suggested fix that you might like to
> incorporate in the port.
Well, I'd prefer to send it to the authors so they can fix it for everyone.
But adding the extra patch is pretty easy.
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