Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 12:19:56 -0500 From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: Torsten Blum <torstenb@vmunix.org> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, shige@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: zsh re-org Message-ID: <20000212121956.B11463@shadow.blackdawn.com>
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[ torsenb@FreeBSD.org snipped from CC ] On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:59:55AM +0100, Torsten Blum wrote: > Zsh 3.1.x is still beta and as long as this is the case I am, as the > maintainer of ports/shells/zsh, _strongly_ against this. Having a stable > shell is IMHO the most important thing. If anyone wants to play with new > and cool features, that's fine for me. That's why we have zsh-devel. > Replacing ports/shells/zsh with -devel forces everyone else to use a beta. > This is definately not a good idea. *sigh* <rant style="reasonable"> That's pure crap! I've used zsh-devel for several months (as a -static'd shell in /bin), and have never had problems with it. If you ask me, my biggest beef with shells/zsh is the fact that the maintainer ignores PRs related to it, forcing other committers such as Bill to take over their job for them. It's the Darren Reed/ipfilter deal all over again, and that just pisses the hell out of me. On two occassions, shige has committed fixes to shells/zsh-devel and even sent mail to you encouraging you to commit similar fixes. You ignored them completely - I never saw a single reply from you - NOT EVEN ONE! So much for being a maintainer. Besides, I maintain x11/rxvt and since updating it to use RXVT 2.7.1 (Chris Piazza updated to 2.7.2), it has been using a developmental version of RXVT. I used rxvt-devel for several months prior, and even submitted a port PR for that, but Chris just merged it with the current x11/rxvt port. Go figure. I've yet to hear people complaing about this port breaking anything on their system. Anyway, I back this merge. I will continue to do so until somebody gives me a reason why zsh-devel is broken in ways zsh isn't. And until you can prove you're gonna maintain the port! </rant> [ Annelise: what do you mean, "keep the user's history"? Did you look at the zshall/zshenv manpages? I keep user history with env. vars. ] -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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