On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:01:58PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-12-17 13:35:00 +0100, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
since `ion3' actually is a very fine window manager for a
certain type of work, may I ask you to check whether it
would'nt be sufficient to modify the package info line
accordingly with some "wildcard" disclaimer of the kind:
"if this version is older than xxx weeks, please take note
that this version is considered "obsolete" by the original
author. upgrade manually to the most recent version found at
http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ before sending bug
reports or questions to the author"
The name also needs to be changed.
what name? the name of the package? why not call it
`ion3_x11-wm' or whatever? I think one should be as
pragmatic as possible about this: problem is artficial (from
macports point of view, anyway), but ion3 is good software,
so make the name change, explain reason in package info,
provide package and forget about the "noise". this possible
or not?
joerg
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Because using the name ion3 in any form would be a license violation.
Given the author's
propensity for flame wars (not to mention possible law suits) I think
IMHO we are better off without him.
May I suggest you complain to the author instead. Why doesnt he
incorporate a check for updates in his software
and tell the end user there is no support for non-current versions if
this bothers him so much?
William Davis
frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
Mac OS X.5.1 Darwin 9.1.0
X11.app 2.1.1 - (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple5)
Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz
Mundus vult decepi, ego non
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