Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:37:38 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Where are conventions like -devel ports documented? Message-ID: <20120326023738.GA44926@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1203252051420.4039@gerinyyl.fvgr> References: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1203252051420.4039@gerinyyl.fvgr>
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:24:59PM +0300, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > Perhaps I am missing the obvious and will be rewarded with > embarrassement, but where are conventions like the use and > naming of -devel ports described? > > I would have expected this to be covered in > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html > but -- it is not. > > (If this is an omission, can someone more closely involved than > I have been so far donate a paragraph or two?) > > Gerald > > PS: I am thinking to split the existing emulators/wine port into > two, the regular one (tracking releases of Wine) and a -devel port > that tracks the bi-weekly snapshots that will lead to the next > release in a year or two. Somehow I would prefer something like > wine-stable / wine instead of wine / wine-devel, but the latter is > more in line with how we are doing things, right? Correct, the latter is how things are done. I think of it this way: as a user of wine I want the "wine" port/package to give me the best working version while "wine-devel" to give me a development version, for whatever "development version" means. It is clear to me that I'm getting something not as well tested as the latest release. -- WXS
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