new pidgin
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Thu May 8 00:55:56 PDT 2008
On May 2, 2008, at 23:15, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On May 2, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On May 2, 2008, at 12:47 PM, MAS! wrote:
>>>> I had a look for the new pidgin once and decided to not
>>>> update pidgin as I disagree with the new features such
>>>> as automatic resize of the input text area.
>>>
>>> I see.. btw, IMHO, that's a real pity :(
>>
>> Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good reason not to update the
>> port. If a new version of software is released, the port should be
>> updated to that version (assuming it compiles on our supported
>> platforms and such). If there's a need for keeping the older
>> version around, then I agree with the previous poster who said a
>> new port should then be created (by copying the older version of
>> the pidgin port).
>
> I think this change has actually caused the pidgin project to fork,
> so there's probably an alternate port that could be created from
> the forked code that doesn't have the resizing input text area.
Maybe I don't understand the issue, but it seems like it would be
simpler to just have a checkbox in the preferences, or something,
rather than fork the whole project.
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