Re: libFoundation + sope

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:33:07AM -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> The patch-af and patch-ag come directly from the SOGo folks. They are in  
> the SOGo distribution, in the directory SOPE: "sope-patchset-r1632.diff"  
> and "sope-gsmake2.diff", respectively. The patches change sope enough so  
> that it's no longer really sope; thus "sogo-sope".

Ah, I hadn't understood that part yet.

> If we can clean up the patches it would be great; especially if pkgsrc  
> handles this internally with USE_TOOLS. But this puts me a little in  
> over my head. My biggest concern is that future such patches provided by  
> Inverse (the SOGo guys) will end up having to be evaluated and re-worked  
> for pkgsrc.

I've looked a bit closer in the meantime and don't think that the
USE_TOOLS will help.

> I'll ask upstream and see if they can shed any light on those patches  
> and their future.

That'd be good anyway. The next question is if we should keep both
SOGo-sope and sope in pkgsrc, or remove the latter when the former is
imported (since it doesn't package anyway, currently and for a long
time now).

Btw, does SOGo work? :)
 Thomas