On 2011-Jan-10, 20:33, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> Beta?
> 
> May I ask, why this went into net-im/openfire port, but not to new
> port net-im/openfire-devel ?

Ok, I guess I owe an explanation here, since quite a few people have
raised concerns about me committing a beta version to openfire/.

I am personally against -devel ports. These tends to get marked as
IGNORE or anyway no longer be valid after the -devel branch has turned
to stable. I prefer to keep the latest available version in myport/,
upon user request, keep previous (stable and maintained) versions in
myport10, myport11, etc... See for example java/netbeans, java/netbeans5,
java/netbeans55, java/netbeans61. This brings two advantages:

- the cost of maintaining a previous version in myport10/ is ~= 0
- the myport/ directory always contains the latest available version

It is a porter's discretion to ponder wheter a particular release
version is stable enough to get into the main myport/ directory.

In this particular case, openfire-3.7.0.beta seemed to my workable enough.

Users have reported problems upgrading their configuration, and this is
the reason for me requesting a repocopy to backport the previous version
to openfire36.

I welcome any feedbacks on this matter.

Best Regards,

> 
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Pietro Cerutti <[email protected]> wrote:
> > gahr � � � �2011-01-03 12:36:49 UTC
> >
> > �FreeBSD ports repository
> >
> > �Modified files:
> > � �net-im/openfire � � �Makefile distinfo pkg-plist
> > �Removed files:
> > � �net-im/openfire/files patch-build-build.xml
> > �Log:
> > �- Update to 3.7.0.beta
> > � �Release notes: 
> > http://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2010/08/26/openfire-370-beta-is-released
> >
> > �Revision �Changes � �Path
> > �1.28 � � �+4 -4 � � �ports/net-im/openfire/Makefile
> > �1.20 � � �+2 -3 � � �ports/net-im/openfire/distinfo
> > �1.2 � � � +0 -10 � � ports/net-im/openfire/files/patch-build-build.xml 
> > (dead)
> > �1.14 � � �+29 -2 � � ports/net-im/openfire/pkg-plist
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