From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 7 04:02:18 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 975) id AA438D11; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 04:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 04:02:18 +0000 From: "Sergey A. Osokin" To: Robert Simmons Subject: Re: www/nginx-devel Name Change Message-ID: <20150307040218.GB85984@FreeBSD.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 04:02:18 -0000 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