From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 25 08:56:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BADD16A4CE; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1406543D2F; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3PFui3I097866; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:56:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i3PFugCX097865; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:56:42 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Rahul Siddharthan Message-ID: <20040425155642.GH78422@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <1082737586.21666.11.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20040423172211.GA11368@online.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040423172211.GA11368@online.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Valgrind for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:56:45 -0000 On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:22:11PM -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > Please rename "valgrind-devel-port" to "valgrind-snapshot-port". > > > > I think I suggested the name valgrind-devel but I have no idea what the > > latest port naming conventions are. If valgrind-snapshot is more > > consistent, then thats the name it should have. > > Searching though the ports tree, I don't see any ports called > -snapshot. Some snapshot ports have a date stamp (eg, > gcc-3.3.4_20040322). There are dozens of -devel ports which are > unstable development versions of the regular ports (mutt-devel, > rxvt-devel, postgresql-devel, etc). We've had them in the past. > Many linux distributions use a -devel package for header files, which > they separate out from the main library package. Let's not go there. Yes, and FreeBSD has too.[*] This situaion is why "-devel" is a piss-poor name for these type of ports. "-snapshot" or "-indevel" are properly descriptive. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) [*] And I would like to see a lot more of these, as I generally use Kris's packages vs. building from ports and I end up with a lot more crap on my system than I need.