phoenix / firebird port

[Stijn Hoop]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:04:17AM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 11:31, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The attached diff produced a working firebird for me, after a
> > > cp -Rp phoenix firebird.
> > >
> > > I haven't really looked at the generated plist though, so packaging errors
> > > could have slipped in. Hope this diff is of some help though.
> >
> > Thanks!  However, you've slipped in some changes like phoenix@ -->
> > firebird at .  The latter doesn't exist yet, and will most likely be
> > removed altogether in lieu of gnome at .  I've sent a repo move request,
> > and once that's taken care of, I'll work on the update.
> 
> Firebird and Phoenix are the same program.  As explained on the program's
> home page, the name was changed because of legal problems.  It used to be
> customary to consult with the maintainer of the existing FreeBSD port
> before creating a new port for a succeeding version of the same program.
> It was a good custom, I think--especially in a case such as this where it
> sounds as though you are proposing to completely remove the existing port.

alane@ set the maintainer of phoenix to gnome at FreeBSD.org recently (r1.44 of
phoenix/Makefile), which is why I sent this diff to gnome@ instead of sending
it to phoenix at .

--Stijn

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