Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 04:02:18 +0000 From: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: www/nginx-devel Name Change Message-ID: <20150307040218.GB85984@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BQLa9BnOTEcyir-WcHgooB4R_XmN7nHDXedAJG5egh7VhJk3w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BQLa9BnOTEcyir-WcHgooB4R_XmN7nHDXedAJG5egh7VhJk3w@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi Robert, On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:52:58PM -0500, Robert Simmons wrote: > The port www/nginx-devel should really be renamed nginx-mainline. It > is definitely not the development branch as is explained by the > upstream project. Calling it devel may cause users to avoid using this > port over the www/nginx port. > > I have a detailed explanation of this in a bug report here: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196480 > > Does this seem logical? Objection. The nginx project basically provides two versions of nginx: stable and mainline. New releases of the stable version contains bug and security fixes. The mainline usually introduces a bugs in a new features. This is why it has been marked with '-devel' suffix. For stable version FreeBSD ports tree historycally uses the same name as a software product has been named by author, for development version with '-devel' prefix. Also, I see no reason why user may cause to avoid using the www/nginx-devel port. Think it's always up to user to use or not to use any port from FreeBSD ports tree as well as FreeBSD operating system. -- Sergey A. Osokin osa@FreeBSD.org
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20150307040218.GB85984>