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From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tin 1.3 beta port for FreeBSD?
Date: 24 Dec 1995 17:21:21 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Louis Epstein (lepslog@j51.com) wrote:
: Frank MacLachlan (fpm@n2.net) wrote:
: : Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: : : 
: : : I never could get 1.3beta to properly make use of news overview
: : : files.  It always insisted on building index files in the user's
: : : home directory, which wastes a LOT of disk space.  I ended up
: : : switching back to 1.22.
: 
: : I've built several versions of tin 1.3beta and all have used the news
: : overview files.  Works great!
: 
: Well,could someone get it into the FreeBSD Ports Collections??

Real question is what is the policy for doing ports of Beta software?  I
don't see the stability as big an issue as the moving target for what the
port makefile will pull down and weather the supplied patches work for the
version pulled down.

-- David   (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)