[Asterisk-bsd] FreeBSD Port maintainer still maintaining port?

[Preston Garrison]

Grabbing from CVS would be against the entire purpose of ports.  Ports 
are meant to be patched to compile and integrate into the system 
perfectly, as well as they are made to be a -working copy of the 
application.  Basicing a port on code that changes dynamically wouldn't 
be a good idea.  People expect ports to work, and we all know that HEAD 
doesn't always work.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Rich Murphey <Rich at WhiteOakLabs.com>
To: Andrew Foster <andrewfoster at gmail.com>; Asterisk on BSD discussion 
<asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 19:23:52 -0600
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] FreeBSD Port maintainer still maintaining 
port?

Andrew Foster wrote:

  >On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:59:07 -0500, Zeno Lee <zeno_lee at hotmail.com> 
wrote:
 > >
 >>Has anyone contacted the FreeBSD port maintainer for various issues?
 >>
 >>For example, the current port is stuck at 1.0.2
 >>
  >>People using *bsd on #asterisk (freenode) have manually compiled 
1.0.3 and
 >>are using it.
 >> >>
 >
 >On a similar topic, whilst it is possible to build and use Asterisk
 >without the port, it would be useful to to add an asterisk-head port,
 >allowing the src to be retrieved by cvs from -head, and built, rather
 >than necessarily having to use integration milestones.
 >
 >Andrew
 > >

  Excellent question. I can't find any FreeBSD ports that grab a 
cvs-head rather than a snapshot archive. -- Perhaps because it's 
necessary to freeze changes for the sake of finishing each release.

  I think that focusing on FreeBSD support in asterisk-current would 
enhance the quality of the FreeBSD support, because it increases the 
visibility of the impact of design changes, interface changes etc. 
Still, the motivation to consider these is naturally tempered by many 
other priorities, especially given the size of the Linux market and 
existing customer base on Linux.

  Regardless of what our individual priorities are, there is a difficult 
balancing act performed by the asterisk bug meisters in fostering 
quality of the various ports. Closer collaboration with the asterisk 
bug meisters is the key, I believe. I wonder, what, if anything, they 
or the various FreeBSD people would envision that isn't being done?

 Cheers,
 Rich

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