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From: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: .../ports and ported software.
Date: 14 Sep 1994 21:08:35 GMT
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In article <3575v3$nkk@agate.berkeley.edu>, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
|> Rather than making a central repository of diffs, what I did instead was
|> to make each port an encapsulation of the procedure required to make
|> it run under FreeBSD.

Well, I aplaud what is no-doubt a nice piece of configuration control
sleight-of-hand, but I wonder if this system can deal with the problems
that stimulated this post.

Namely, if I have some version related to, but not identical to one of
your ``ports'', what help does your port stuff give?  For example, if
I have version+1 or perhaps an experimental version of the original code
what do I do.

If I had just plain-old diffs I would at least know what is involved.
But then I am probably just gettin old and crusty in my programming
old-age...

And, what do you send back to the developers of the ported package, if
not just plain-old diffs?  You *are* sending back the changes, arent you?

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