From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 2 3:35:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6484137B401; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 03:34:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from calcaphon.demon.co.uk ([193.237.19.5]) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14OeUL-000LRT-0B; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:34:49 +0000 Received: from doug02.qubesoft.com (doug02.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.4]) by calcaphon.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f12BYlN36146; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:34:48 GMT (envelope-from dfr@qubesoft.com) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:34:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Peter Pentchev Cc: OKAZAKI Tetsurou , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/graphics/aalib In-Reply-To: <20010202132926.H328@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:23:00AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, OKAZAKI Tetsurou wrote: > > > > > In the message > > > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > > > > > I want to add the following minor patch to the aalib port. It corrects a > > > > typo in the header file which prevents aalib from being used from C++ > > > > code. Any comments? > > > > > > This deserves to up PORTREVISION, doesn't it? > > > > I don't fully understand the uses of PORTREVISION but I doubt if it needs > > to be changed. This patch won't affect any existing C users of the port > > and it was previously impossible to use from C++ so there can't be any > > existing C++ users. > > True, but this shall indicate to any *potential* C++ users that something > about the port has changed, and they might even take a peek at the logs > to see exactly what changed. > > There are those like me who run cvsup with -L 2, and then read the output; > and then there are those who don't :) It's for their benefit that > PORTREVISION exists - so that pkg_version can tell them that something > important changed, and they should spend some time wondering exactly what > it was :) So I should increment PORTREVISION? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@qubesoft.com Technical Director, Qube Software Ltd. Phone: +44 20 7431 9995 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message