From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 1: 3:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A9414D3F for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 01:03:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA66646; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:03:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:03:12 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: two branches in Gnome and fbsd response to it Message-ID: <19991124100312.B58890@lucifer.bart.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 08:57:22AM +0100 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [19991124 09:00], Ariel Burbaickij (Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) wrote: >Gnome projekt maintains usually two branches of development >Stable and Beta-releases.The versions supported in /usr/ports >are afahs development(my particular interess is xchat the version >supported is 1.3.7 in /usr/ports/irc)I would like to have >the stable version 1.2.0. Will ports mechanismus support both branches >or way it is the suggested way to stay STABLE with other projects >(Gnome gtk and so on)in fbsd enviromnet? Most ports in /usr/ports have been tested by a large audience and most of the maintainers of those ports are active within the appropriate projects. Most ports have often stable and development ports. Feel free to submit ports structures for stable ports if you think that supporting somewhat development versions in your eyes is bad. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator bART Internet Services / Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70 VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message