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Updated FreeBSD Ports

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:04:58 -0500
Steve Ames <steve (at) energistic.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I submitted some patches to the FreeBSD team a while back to update
> the versions of pwlib and openh323 distributed in their ports system.
> This week I got word that they are ready to do this. Clearly the
> patches I sent last June aren't quite up to date anymore so I'm 
> putting a new patchset together for this.
> 
> They have already created seperate ports for the versions currently
> in the tree (PWLib 1.5.2 and OpenH323 1.12.2). These will be left
> so that all current ports depending on them can continue to work
> unchanged. Port maintainers can update their ports to use the newer
> versions as they get time.
> 
> Today's questions... is it better to go with the Mimas Patch2 (aka
> pwlib 1.8.7 and openH323 1.15.6) which is listed as the current 
> stable release or is the atlas3 release stable enough for this? I
> saw an email recently about some versioning and recommendations
> but want to be clear. If atlas3 is stable I'd prefer to go that
> route since having pwlib 1.9.2 in the ports tree paves the way for
> adding Opal also. Also there have been some good updates since
> the Mimas2 release.
> 
> If I don't hear back from anyone I'm going to play safe and go with 
> Mimas2. No big deal because once the port is split and updates then
> future updates will go through much more quickly.

I would prefer you use the latest stable candidate, which is the Atlas
branch (OpenH323) and Phobos branch (PWLib)

These branches are currently being stablised for an upcoming stable
release for Gnome, while development continues on CVS head

   Craig

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