[41852] trunk/dports/games/ctetris

[nox]

Le 11 nov. 08 à 22:28, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :

> On Nov 11, 2008, at 09:14, nox wrote:
>
>> Le 11 nov. 08 à 12:21, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :
>>
>>> On Nov 11, 2008, at 03:14, toby at macports.org wrote:
>>>
>>>> Revision: 41852
>>>>         http://trac.macports.org/changeset/41852
>>>> Author:   toby at macports.org
>>>> Date:     2008-11-11 01:14:02 -0800 (Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
>>>> Log Message:
>>>> -----------
>>>> update to 0.42
>>>
>>> How will users who had ctetris 0.30 installed learn that the port  
>>> has changed names to ctris? They won't, unfortunately. Which is  
>>> why you need to keep a stub ctetris port around which does nothing  
>>> but inform the user to install ctris instead. See for example the  
>>> libopensync port which was renamed to opensync:
>>>
>>> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/41839
>>>
>>> Copy the last version of ctetris back into place using svn copy  
>>> and the peg revision 41851. Increase the version number so users  
>>> are informed it's outdated (increasing the version to the current  
>>> version of ctris seems good). And make it not download or install  
>>> anything except a readme.
>>>
>>>> <snip/>
>>
>> Can't we just create some sort of a weekly newsletter with some  
>> news about MacPorts and in particular renamed/nuked/superseded ports?
>
> I'm sure only a small portion of MacPorts users are on the macports- 
> users mailing list. So I don't think that would be helpful.
>

I'm not talking about a new mailing list or whatever but some kind of  
a webpage, the URL of it could be added to the output of the  
selfupdate action.