Re: Porting forks

Hello Matthew,

Well, I was thinking that this should be the best solution for this port
because fork respects original history and code.

I'm stucked in https://github.com/Xenoveritas/abuse/issues/26 about correct
license(s) to use on port.

Thanks,

Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> escreveu no dia quarta, 22/02/2023
à(s) 08:40:

> On 22/02/2023 08:22, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> > I'm thinking porting a fork from games/abuse_sdl located at
> > https://github.com/Xenoveritas/abuse
> >
> > My doubt is what name should port have because fork have exacly same
> name.
> >
> > Any help is welcome.
>
> Given that the main difference from the current port and the fork you're
> looking at is the build system, and development on the original upstream
> code seems to have ceased years ago, so the actual game content between
> the two forks would be the same, there seems to me to be no particularly
> good reason to have both the original and the forked version in the tree.
>
> Why not just take maintainership of games/abuse_sdl and update it to use
> the forked code?
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
>


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Nuno Teixeira
FreeBSD Committer (ports)