On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt ryandesign-at-macports.org wrote: > On May 2, 2008, at 23:15, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > >> On May 2, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> On May 2, 2008, at 12:47 PM, MAS! wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I had a look for the new pidgin once and decided to not >>>>> update pidgin as I disagree with the new features such >>>>> as automatic resize of the input text area. >>>> >>>> I see.. btw, IMHO, that's a real pity :( >>> >>> Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good reason not to update the port. If a >>> new version of software is released, the port should be updated to that >>> version (assuming it compiles on our supported platforms and such). If >>> there's a need for keeping the older version around, then I agree with the >>> previous poster who said a new port should then be created (by copying the >>> older version of the pidgin port). >> >> I think this change has actually caused the pidgin project to fork, so >> there's probably an alternate port that could be created from the forked >> code that doesn't have the resizing input text area. > > Maybe I don't understand the issue, but it seems like it would be simpler to > just have a checkbox in the preferences, or something, rather than fork the > whole project.
Indeed. The forkers suggested exactly that. However, the maintainers refused, and a new project "funpidgin" was born. From funpidgin's perspective, this is only the latest in a history of arrogant moves by the pidgin maintainers. More background: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/1822237&from=rss http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986 http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funpidgin -- Joel Thibault [AIM: Jole Tebo] Software Engineer in Boston _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
