ksh93

[joerg van den hoff]

On 15.11.19 23:00, Christopher Jones wrote:
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 >> Hello,
 >>    If you put in a ticket to https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Tickets 
<https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Tickets> it can be monitored.  It is up 
to the maintainer or someone else to update.
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 > or, even better, submit a PR with the update yourself at
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 > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pulls 
<https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pulls>

a pull request? really? I mean, no offense meant (promise!) but the 
macports project sure has a policy for its maintained packages regarding 
updating them automatically on a regular basis? all those 20k+ packages 
are sure not updated manually by a handful of individuals on explicit 
request of a user, right?

in the case at hand, the ksh93 "releases" reside as tarballs at

https://github.com/att/ast/releases

but this obviously is known to the package maintainer, I'd say... so why 
would a PR be in order?

and apart the pain caused by having to deal with git(hub) in the first 
place ;): in my view, the whole point of a descent package management 
system (which macports sure is these days more than ever) is that it 
frees the user from having to deal with the "low level" stuff while 
enabling him to just use the software he needs/wants. so while I 
understand the purpose of a bug tracker it seems already somewhat 
"wrong" to me that macports users need to have a github account in order 
to submit bug reports. led alone PRs... is it only me?

thanks for macports,

joerg

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