Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:52:31 -0500 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fbsd safety of the ports Message-ID: <28D6D569034891DD2EBAA560@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <4f33d9d0.xyQBRJDiZZbH1ZxR%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4F300FCD.8070804@nagual.nl> <CAHhngE0Y1hFQv4dUvaKFz68kwNWERAAJKpirTV0bvAiPmPx_aA@mail.gmail.com> <6F081A41-0EA8-4DB4-8FB9-F2E9A75EC948@olivent.com> <C2DEE7E606ECCC2C0AE91F2D@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <08DB354F-6604-4B28-8AE9-E6B40FE87A96@olivent.com> <CAHhngE3D0dyt6_xUT9eU7cj2vDc2T8qp3jg4=PuVzkKSP79pMg@mail.gmail.com> <4f33d9d0.xyQBRJDiZZbH1ZxR%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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--As of February 9, 2012 6:36:00 AM -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com is alleged to have said: >> TWiki is a nightmare to update ... > > TWiki was replaced with Foswiki (which is also in ports) at $WORK > a while back. Dunno why, or how much of a job the changeover was > for the admins, but there must have been some expected benefit to > justify the effort. The change was largely transparent to users. --As for the rest, it is mine. That's because TWiki's former lead developer - and trademark holder - was being a dick. He managed to completely alienate all the current developers, and was holding up development of TWiki. So they left en-mass and forked the project; the new project is Foswiki. (This is obviously a condensed summary. There is much more information online, as most of this happened in public.) The expected benefits are therefore the backlog of changes that had been held up, and an active developer community. However, the 'update' procedure hasn't changed. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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