From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 12:51:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8694616A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:51:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EB843D39 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:51:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7974E512AF; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 04:51:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 04:51:44 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Brown Message-ID: <20050208125144.GB77644@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200502080917.j189H63J073918@chilled.skew.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502080917.j189H63J073918@chilled.skew.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: impending port removal date coincides with new release X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:51:46 -0000 --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:17:06AM -0700, Mike Brown wrote: > The current release version of 4Suite, an XML & RDF toolkit for Python, i= s=20 > 1.0a4. If all goes well, we're going to release 4Suite 1.0b1 on Feb 15th. >=20 > The textproc/py-4suite port, years out of date and long broken, is schedu= led=20 > for deletion on Feb 18. I will have a port for 1.0b1 ready soon after=20 > release, maybe on the 15th or 16th, but obviously that would be cutting t= he=20 > approval window a bit close. >=20 > I could submit a 4Suite 1.0a4 port right now (it's done), just to keep th= e=20 > port from dying, but I would rather not have 1.0a4 floating around, if it= can=20 > be avoided. >=20 > What should I do? I think the simplest solution would be to just push the > removal date out by a couple of weeks. Is that an option? Yes. Thanks for your interest. Kris --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCCLXfWry0BWjoQKURAicJAKCE/fVpHQZ6h+1/dKKmfyw2wFucYACeKg5R m+5bftSORRNhnxiow027pq0= =FsNh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K--