On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Peter Valchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Rafael Sadowski <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Fri Mar 18, 2011 at 09:17:23PM +0500, Alexandr Shadchin wrote:
>>> I prepared diff update x11/fvwm2 to 2.5.31 (on request and test mikeb@)
>>>
>>> current x11/fvwm2 - 2.4.20 (stable branch)
>>> last version fvwm2 - 2.5.31 (unstable branch)
>>>
>>> mikeb@ work with 2.5, no regression found.
>>>
>>> What should I do? Update current port, or separate port(fvwm2-devel)?
>>>
>> I don't think that any work with stable branch. In my opinion, separate
>> port like fvwm2-devel is the best choice but perhaps, a port like mutt
>> with subdirs stable and snapshot (for fvmw unsable) is also good.
>
> Previously it seemed silly to have 2 versions... what's the motivation
> not to stick with -stable? I'm really curious.
>

because 2.5 has unicode and freetype support.

> I really don't see the point of two versions, but if there is such a
> demand, then stable/snapshot model makes sense.
>
>

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