From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 16:03:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org 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 5CF2D16A420; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:03:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@virtual-voodoo.com) Received: from energistic.com (mail.energistic.com [216.54.148.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2D843D48; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:03:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@virtual-voodoo.com) Received: from stevenew (static-71-98-120-2.ipslin.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.98.120.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by energistic.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA9G3XaO016562; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:03:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from steve@virtual-voodoo.com) Message-ID: <007d01c5e547$268ada80$aa00030a@officescape.net> From: "Steve Ames" To: "Joerg Pulz" , "Koop Mast" References: <20050718175416.I72944@hades.admin.frm2> <20050719155248.apdm04x2wwgo8wg0@netchild.homeip.net> <20050719152818.GA64202@energistic.com> <1121788205.35721.7.camel@heater.rainbow-runner.nl> <00f301c59926$3d139e30$aa00030a@officescape.net> <20050809105939.gx64cgjptyco4sg4@netchild.homeip.net> <20051108220424.N7025@hades.admin.frm2> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:03:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,SPF_FAIL, USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO autolearn=no version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on energistic.com Cc: net/asterisk maintainer , ports@freebsd.org, Sergey Matveychuk , net/asterisk-oh323 maintainer , Alexander Leidinger , Steve Ames Subject: Re: devel/pwlib and net/openh323 update coming X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:03:54 -0000 Joerg Pulz wrote: > > now that there are three months almost gone without any further noise > about this, i would like to ask about the current status. > Is there any progress or are there any news? Excellent question... its gone all quiet :) I was rather under the impression that 6.0-R was the major holdup as no one wanted to do anything radical to the ports while it was pending (other than a gnome and kde update that was pretty major... heh). > I really would like to see something happen in this area. Me too. I'd like to see the current production versions of pwlib and openh323 put into the ports tree. The old ones should just be retired. Most mainstream ports that use pwlib and openh323 have been updated to work with the current versions of these libraries. The gnomemeeting folks even host a mirror for the current versions and their website says they are know to work. asterisk-oh323 wants a higher version than the one currently in ports. The last release of OpenH323 (1.15.6) includes fixes specifically for BSD. Multiple sets of patches and aproaches have been submitted. Obviously new patches would have to be generated and submitted to reflect changes in versions and the ports tree... However someone with a commit bit needs to be backing this process or its essentially wasted effort to do so. Once the basic infrastructure is updated to current release versions and shared libraries it becomes trivial to add ports for the -devel versions so that these can be tracked as well (including a -devel version for OPAL). -steve