From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 15 03:18:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA03852 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 03:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from ns11.rim.or.jp (ns11.rim.or.jp [202.247.130.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA03846; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 03:18:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp) Received: from rayearth.rim.or.jp (rayearth.rim.or.jp [202.247.130.242]) by ns11.rim.or.jp (8.8.5/3.5Wpl2-ns11/RIMNET-2) with ESMTP id TAA22368; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:16:35 +0900 (JST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by rayearth.rim.or.jp (8.8.5/3.5Wpl2-uucp1/RIMNET) with UUCP id TAA09215; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:16:35 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.aslm.rim.or.jp (8.9.1/3.5Wpl3-SMTP) with ESMTP id TAA02620; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:07:03 +0900 (JST) To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Cc: max@wide.ad.jp Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/gd - Imported sources From: Masafumi NAKANE/=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 02:31:34 -0700" <19980915023134.A1447@nuxi.com> References: <19980915023134.A1447@nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.92.4 on Emacs 20.2 / Mule 3.0 (MOMIJINOGA) X-PGP-Fingerprint: 00 D8 2C CA C7 75 D4 40 5C 34 39 BA A5 46 C0 CC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19980915190701M.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:07:01 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 971024 Lines: 36 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > Good point. Maybe we should just update the port that is >> already > (ports/graphics/gd) if there is nothing >> Japanese-centric about it. >> >> Sorry for my less information. This port has patches for >> creation GIF from Japanese kanji fonts. This will be used by >> ja-apache*-php* for creating Kanji GIF on the fly. >> >> I'll add description about it into pkg/COMMENT. Thanks! > So. It is still usable by everyone, right? Non-Japanese wont > notice anything different, right? So why not update > ports/graphics/gd with this one? It sounds okay while there is only patch for this progarm to support Japanese. But what if, for example, Chinese, Korean or Vietnamies patches came out and they were exclusive to each other? Which patch should we integrate to ports/graphics/gd? Since there seems only Japanese patch is know to be out there, it may be okay to integrate it in graphics/gd, but we may have to move that to japanese/gd in future. I have a feeling that providing FreeBSD port of Japanese something will let many people be aware of the fact that there is Japanese patch for ceratin program, and that would increase the chance for people in other language environment to create a patch for their own language. Thus, resulting in the situation illustrated above. So, I would say that even though there is only Japanese patch at this moment, it is probably wise to separate it in the Japanese category. If the original author of gd decided to integrate that patch in his/her original distribution, the story is totally different, of course, though. Cheers, Max