Re: git: 25e6f68a6661 - main - textproc/libxml2: Update to 2.11.6

From: Charlie Li <vishwin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:32:01 UTC
Daniel Engberg wrote:
> It's a collaboration and seemingly multiple people seem to agree both 
> within and outside the project on that given the engagement, you seem to 
> disagree on that which is a bit concerning. Everything is a liability 
> like that including even updating and everything is best effort. But 
> again, if you or others want to start to upstream Autotools fixes etc by 
> all means go ahead but has yet to occur. If we can work with upstream 
> and reduce the amount of local patches, hacks and have clean Makefiles 
> that's a win for everyone irregardless of build system.
> 
The collaboration and engagement is irrelevant until upstream declares 
the other method as equal in at least their README, in a release, 
period. There is only one autotools-related patch in my WIP and it's 
hardly a patch at that, especially compared to the CMake patch we now carry.

-- 
Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.