On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:32PM -0700, Rob Farmer wrote: > This breaks math/scilab (which is the only dependency in the ports > tree). Unfortunately, the author of jgraphx seems to completely > disregard backwards compatibility and changes the API in virtually > every release. > > I tried to patch Scilab based on their git repository (which has > support for 1.4.0.1), but hundreds of revisions have passed and they > have rearranged their tree a bit and added/removed some files, so it > didn't go well. > > IMHO, we need to either create a separate jgraphx-scilab port or keep > this in sync with Scilab (this is what Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo are > doing).
Considering Scilab is the only consumer of jgraphx, it seems having special port would be an overkill. I think we should keep the two in sync, and probably work with upstream maintainers of both projects to improve compatibility and API inheritance in the future. Separate port of jgraphx-scilab is palliative solution, i.e. it simply increases the entropy, not solving the underlying problem. ./danfe _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
