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Subject: forth port is obsolete
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>Number:         25557
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       the pfe-devel port obsoletes the forth port
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    patrick
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 05 10:00:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Fri Apr 27 05:04:09 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Fri Apr 27 05:10:26 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Peter van Dijk
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Dataloss networks
>Environment:

ports tree couple weeks old.

>Description:

The lang/forth port installs pfe 0.29.1, while the lang/pfe-devel port
installs pfe 0.30.27.

>How-To-Repeat:

Look at the Makefiles :)

>Fix:

Remove the forth port.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->patrick 
Responsible-Changed-By: sf 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Mar 6 06:22:45 PST 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25557 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: patrick 
State-Changed-When: Fri Apr 27 05:04:09 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
The forth port (version 0.29.1) is not obsolete.  The current pfe 0.30.95  
follows another path from the original authors intent. Version 0.29.1 is a 
compact forth which will run on many platforms, while 0.30.X is a more 
complete, robust forth which will run on many platorms. 

0.29.1 is considered stable, while 0.30.X is a work in progress. 

There wil be a time when the forth port is obsolete, but not yet ;) 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25557 
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