Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 04:59:29 +0700 From: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Kurt Jaeger <pi@opsec.eu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: xpra-0.0.7.16p4 Message-ID: <4D4C76C1.7030706@nagafix.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D4C5A05.2000909@FreeBSD.org> References: <4D4B0CDB.9000404@nagafix.co.uk> <4D4B400A.2090701@FreeBSD.org> <4D4BA777.2030701@nagafix.co.uk> <20110204084939.GF34314@home.opsec.eu> <20110204093807.GA2803@straylight.ringlet.net> <4D4C5A05.2000909@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi Doug, The last proper file release from upstream was 0.0.6 in November 2009. Since then, I've fixed a number of things (from typos to build fixes for some platforms), supported new platforms (mac osx, I originally added win32 support but the author then re-wrote that), etc Any help in getting the patches merged would be much appreciated, I haven't had much luck so far. I used to send piecemeal patches with full description to the author, but since almost none of them got merged, recently I've started posting large all-in-one diffs instead. (they're not even all from me these patches, but I end up maintaining them) Also, another tool I maintain won't work without the patches I added, so if you ship the upstream version then I'll have to fork it to make it work with my tool (I really really would rather not). Cheers Antoine On 02/05/2011 02:56 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > I'm confused. Why are we not using the sources from the "regular" > location, and patching to make them work for us? And has anyone > contacted the upstream about the changes and why they are necessary? > This whole thing seems very confusing to me (but that's not saying > much). :) > > Doug > > >
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