From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 23:13:42 2003 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 84BAA16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:13:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E26943F93 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:13:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adamw@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 17391 invoked by uid 1252); 12 Nov 2003 07:13:41 -0000 Date: 12 Nov 2003 02:13:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:13:41 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger To: Sergey Matveychuk Message-ID: <20031112071341.GL95315@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <20031110152000.622db381.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <1068471598.38101.77.camel@dirk.no.domain> <20031110163623.GC93583@procyon.firepipe.net> <1068495958.690.72.camel@leguin> <53EC784E-13C5-11D8-AD24-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <3FB00E53.8060603@fillmore-labs.com> <20031111021929.GA17050@xor.obsecurity.org> <73E9F604-1472-11D8-BD31-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20031111202136.GA40106@graf.pompo.net> <3FB1B91F.8030709@ciam.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FB1B91F.8030709@ciam.ru> X-Editor: Vim 6.2 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx X-ASL: 6/m/behind you User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ability for maintainers to update own ports 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: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:13:42 -0000 >> (11.11.2003 @ 2337 PST): Sergey Matveychuk said, in 0.8K: << > GNATS is not convinient for this purpose. > E.g. I can't to get PR changes notification. > Really I've sent some follow-ups and missed comments because of a sender > forgot Cc: me. > > May be GNATS4 will be better if upgraded some time. >> end of "Re: Ability for maintainers to update own ports" from Sergey Matveychuk << Ceri is working on this, but it's very difficult because any changes to the user interface of send-pr (i.e. adding categories, etc.) makes older versions incompatible. GNATS isn't very backwards-compatible, which can make send-pr on older machines die horrible flaming screaming deaths. Of doom. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger vectors.cx >> adam@vectors.cx >> http://www.vectors.cx magnesium.net << adamw@magnesium.net << http://www.magnesium.net/~adamw FreeBSD >> adamw@FreeBSD.org >> http://people.freebsd.org/~adamw #vim:set ts=8: 8-char tabs prevent tooth decay.