Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:00:34 -0800 (PST) From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/61155: [REPOCOPY WAITING] new port: ftp/wget-devel Message-ID: <200401110100.i0B10YQD094016@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/61155; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, edwin@mavetju.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: ports/61155: [REPOCOPY WAITING] new port: ftp/wget-devel
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:56:24 +0100
Adding reply from <sf@FreeBSD.org>, who is ftp/wget maintainer,
rescued from pending/61164:
At Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:15:45 +1100 (EST),
Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> devel/wget starts to lag behind the releases of wget.
> At least with a development version we are able to figure out when
> it is stable enough to ftp/wget updated.
I don't update it due to at least these two regressions over
1.8.2_5 port:
a) wget-1.9.x depends on IPv4-mapped IPv6 address and this is not
accepted. Fixed in CVS HEAD.
b) Large file support > 2GB. The author is working on it.
I think the next major release will have both fixed, and 1.9 branch
has no future. I don't want to recommend 1.9.x to anyone because it
does not work well over 1.8.2_5, but also don't want to discourage
dilettantes. :-)
--
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
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