From owner-cvs-all Thu Jun 22 9: 1:10 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp [210.234.123.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30F637C341; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from knu@idaemons.org) Received: from daemon.local.idaemons.org (203-165-77-17.sugnm1.kt.home.ne.jp [203.165.77.17]) by ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (8.9.3/3.7W 04/27/00) with ESMTP id BAA23021; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:00:47 +0900 (JST) Received: by daemon.local.idaemons.org (8.9.3/3.7W) id BAA07923; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:00:16 +0900 (JST) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:00:14 +0900 Message-ID: <86bt0tr9ip.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" To: n@nectar.com, knu@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/gnome-icu Makefile ports/japanese/gnome-icu/files md5 ports/japanese/gnome-icu/patches patch-ap patch-aq patch-ab patch-aa patch-ae patch-af patch-ak patch-al patch-am patch-ao ports/japanese/gnome-icu/pkg PLIST In-Reply-To: In your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:18:27 -0500" <20000622081826.A68187@bone.nectar.com> References: <200006221055.DAA84783@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000622081826.A68187@bone.nectar.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.1.2 (Raspberry Beret) EMIKO/1.13.12 (Euglena sociabilis) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) APEL/10.2 MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 9) (Canyonlands) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Associated I. Daemons X-PGP-Public-Key: finger knu@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1BEF D9B2 BABD 25D7 659A FD08 89C2 F3BE E981 4E16 MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by EMIKO 1.13.12 - "Euglena sociabilis") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, At Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:18:27 -0500, Jacques A . Vidrine wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 03:55:29AM -0700, Akinori MUSHA wrote: > > Update to the latest gnomeicu-ja snapshot. 0.94-devel-1. > > Why? 0.93 is the current released version. I suggest that if it is > important that there be a port for the development version, that you > make a seperate port. As for this software, "release" means little. You know, its release timing is always unpredictable, it occasionally skips the version number, it only bumped the version number by 0.01 when the file format of the message history database had changed, etc. All these fact suggest every GnomeICU "release" was actually a development release. To say more, judging from the past 0.67 -> 0.90 jump, I can guess that the GnomeICU team intends to have the version 1.0 release as their first official stable release. (But I digress) Besides, GnomeICU-ja is currently developed as a separate project and under way to get merged into the upstream. It has been updated at random intervals without regard to the upstream's releases. That is, whenever the maintainer can spare the time to, he updates the base source tree to the latest upstream development snapshot at that time, then merges his GnomeICU-ja diffs. So, we cannot always expect a release corresponding to every upstream release. By the way, what GnomeICU-ja intends is not just a Japanese l10n but the i18n including Japanese code tranlation support. > Also, I don't know that it is policy, but I strongly prefer to keep the > language-specific ports in-sync with the `main' ports -- and of course > ports/net/gnome-icu is still at 0.93. I'm not sure such a policy makes much sense. For example, sometimes i18n/m17n/l10n work should target the forthcoming major release before it's too late, so it is thinkable that an unofficial i18n/m17n/l10n version comes first as a development release which we desire to make it a port, when the port corresponding to the Western-languages-only version has no reason to update from the stable version. -- / /__ __ / ) ) ) ) / Akinori -Aki- MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( @ idaemons.org / FreeBSD.org "We're only at home when we're on the run, on the wing, on the fly" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message