From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 20 7:56:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.de (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2213637B406 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hschaefer@fto.de) Received: from fwd00.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 15CjPO-0000Cb-02; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:56:42 +0200 Received: from giskard.foundation.hs (320048919767-0001@[217.2.97.43]) by fmrl00.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 15CjPI-2I5KnQC; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:56:36 +0200 Received: from daneel.foundation.hs (daneel.foundation.hs [192.168.20.2]) by giskard.foundation.hs (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06709; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:57:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hschaefer@fto.de) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:54:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Schaefer X-X-Sender: To: Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." Subject: Re: ports/28272: Update port: net/libsocket++ (fwd) Message-ID: <20010620164546.K49270-100000@daneel.foundation.hs> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 320048919767-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi everyone, i would like to bring up a question that i've been discussing with David W. Chapman Jr after i've submitted a new port for libsocket++ (see ports/28272 on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28272): there exists a port net/libsocket++, which is for libsocket++-1.10. i've made a port for libsocket++-1.11 (both versions of libsocket++ are ancient history, development of libsocket++ seems to stand still for the past 5 years or so already, so most likely there will be no more changes to the lib itself anytime soon). the main difference between both versions is that 1.11 has introduced exception handling. now the trouble is, that 1.11's interface is slightly different from 1.10's interface - software that has been written to compile and link against 1.10 will most likely be broken against 1.11. so the question is: do we want to keep net/libsocket++ unchanged and add a new port for the 1.11 (a possible name for the port would be net/libsocket++-exceptions or libsocket++-exceptionhandling ... anything like that, suggestions welcome), or can we safely replace the old version of the port with one for the new libsocket++ (i.e. will anyone miss the old version !?) ? hope to hear your opinions on that Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message