From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 8:48:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F163914DD4 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:48:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:48:36 +0100 Received: from sun10.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.110]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 11sqHM-000194-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:37:24 +0100 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun10.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17710 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:48:30 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sun10.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:48:29 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun10 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: development models of some ports(expecially Gnome) Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I make port-upgrade periddically what I see is that always the last the "raw" version is included in ports.Gnome officialy maintains two branches of development:stable and beta so it effictively adhere to the same development model as fbsd do(at least what two branches of development concern).Now I would like to know what is so idiotic in idea of doing the same:just maintain two branches of gnome ports :stable and development.There are surely people how are interested in one as well there are people who are interested in other anf there still another who are interested in stable applications in one part and development applications in other.As for me I have some long-lasting problems with xchat-1.3.8 I understand it is not critical by no means but I would soemhow appreciate possibility to choose what I would like to run using ports mechanismus.Besides ,will the questions related and describing problems with some non-critical applications tolerated and answered in this mailing list.Is it a good tone to ask them? kind regards, Ariel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message