Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:00:14 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: n@nectar.com, knu@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/gnome-icu Makefile ports/japanese/gnome-icu/files md5 ports/japanese/gnome-icu/patches patch-ap patch-aq patch-ab patch-aa patch-ae patch-af patch-ak patch-al patch-am patch-ao ports/japanese/gnome-icu/pkg PLIST Message-ID: <86bt0tr9ip.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:18:27 -0500" <20000622081826.A68187@bone.nectar.com> References: <200006221055.DAA84783@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000622081826.A68187@bone.nectar.com>
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Hi,
At Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:18:27 -0500,
Jacques A . Vidrine <n@nectar.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 03:55:29AM -0700, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> > Update to the latest gnomeicu-ja snapshot. 0.94-devel-1.
>
> Why? 0.93 is the current released version. I suggest that if it is
> important that there be a port for the development version, that you
> make a seperate port.
As for this software, "release" means little. You know, its release
timing is always unpredictable, it occasionally skips the version
number, it only bumped the version number by 0.01 when the file format
of the message history database had changed, etc. All these fact
suggest every GnomeICU "release" was actually a development release.
To say more, judging from the past 0.67 -> 0.90 jump, I can guess that
the GnomeICU team intends to have the version 1.0 release as their
first official stable release. (But I digress)
Besides, GnomeICU-ja is currently developed as a separate project and
under way to get merged into the upstream. It has been updated at
random intervals without regard to the upstream's releases. That is,
whenever the maintainer can spare the time to, he updates the base
source tree to the latest upstream development snapshot at that time,
then merges his GnomeICU-ja diffs. So, we cannot always expect a
release corresponding to every upstream release.
By the way, what GnomeICU-ja intends is not just a Japanese l10n but
the i18n including Japanese code tranlation support.
> Also, I don't know that it is policy, but I strongly prefer to keep the
> language-specific ports in-sync with the `main' ports -- and of course
> ports/net/gnome-icu is still at 0.93.
I'm not sure such a policy makes much sense. For example, sometimes
i18n/m17n/l10n work should target the forthcoming major release before
it's too late, so it is thinkable that an unofficial i18n/m17n/l10n
version comes first as a development release which we desire to make
it a port, when the port corresponding to the Western-languages-only
version has no reason to update from the stable version.
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