port notes

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 1, 2010, at 17:16, Scott Haneda wrote:

> On May 1, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> With new ports I'm trying to get into the habit of using notes, like with xdotool, where it was straightforward. Some of my other ports (lighttpd, sleepwatcher, wget, whois) could easily have their ui_msgs converted to notes too.
> 
> I was curious, so I installed ports `whois`, I use `whois` often, always using /usr/bin/whois, and now have /opt/local/bin/whois.  What is the advantage?

I'm not sure. But I don't recommend you ask the developer of this version of whois; he's a jerk.


> FYI:
> `port info whois`
> Description:          whois is an improved whois client that follow the delegations from the Verisign whois
>                      server.
> 
> * follow should be follows.

Thanks, fixed.


> I see a lot of example use of `wget` online, but have always leaned on `curl` for those needs. Being the maintainer of `wget`, what advantages do you find over `curl`?

I don't know; I use curl too. :)