From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 2 16:33:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E743B37B401; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4751243E75; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g92NWsTD307120; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:32:54 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20021002122858.GJ44476@starjuice.net> References: <20021002103007.588d3bf3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <84545.1033548356@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021002115138.GE90861@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20021002122858.GJ44476@starjuice.net> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:32:52 -0400 To: Sheldon Hearn , Marc Recht From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Cc: Alexander Langer , phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 2:28 PM +0200 10/2/02, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >We're at a lucky moment in time, where there's only one version of >expat in the ports tree. But think about what happens when there >are two mainstream versions at large again. > >Please let's learn from past mistakes and give this library a >completely separate name, perhaps with stripped down functionality. >Then ports can still choose to use it instead of the expat2 port >if it does the job for them, and we have our cake and eat it. I think it would be very prudent that any base-system expat have it's own name, even if it's just "expat2fb". I have no opinion on whether that should be the full expat2 or a stripped down functionality, but I think we should make it clear that "this is the expat which the base system needs -- if you do not like this version, then use the appropriate port and don't complain to us about which version we install in the base system". -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message