Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: When is Gentoo 1.4 going to be released?

From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To: "Tom Syroid" <tom@syroidmanor.com>,
	"Matt Beland" <matt@rearviewmirror.org>, <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: When is Gentoo 1.4 going to be released?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:13:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006b01c27a8d$b1829e20$8204dca7@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15980000.1035315815@phaedrus.syroidmanor.com

You miss the fact that MANY new ports have not been added to the tree, but
have been marked as LATER instead.  Marked out right and not even reviewed.

OH -- for you chess players out there, I have created a port for SCID that
is waiting in the queue -- and I created it for the stable 3.3 version, not
the beta (coming soon). http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9391

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Syroid" <tom@syroidmanor.com>
To: "Matt Beland" <matt@rearviewmirror.org>; <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: When is Gentoo 1.4 going to be released?

> Hi Matt ;-) long time, no chat.
>
> --On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:15:49 -0700 Matt Beland
> <matt@rearviewmirror.org> wrote:
>
> > We want the Gentoo team to let us know when they're going to
> > let us take full advantage of the portage system again. Frankly, I (and
> > I suspect most others) could care less about the 1.4 release in and of
> > itself. Sure, a new version of the compiler and so on would be nice, but
> > I can get that on my own if necessary. The problem is that the portage
> > tree is frozen waiting for 1.4, and has been for some time.
>
> Without trying to be contentious here (in other words, simple honest
> question)...
>
> I know you well enough that I can safely say you're not about to go off
> using a new version of something on any kind of critcal box without
testing
> it first. So on the assumption that you have already discerned
> program/tool/system utility is "ready for prime time", what's wrong with
> simply edited the "frozen" entry in package.mask and installing it?
>
> While I concur that the Gentoo development team as a whole could do a
> better job of communicating TODO's and loose timelines to the community, I
> don't see how a frozen Portage tree is preventing you from utilizing the
> distribution in any way you heart desires.
>
> Best,
> /tom
>
>
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