Re: PR/50853 CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

> Lately I need thrift to satisfy a dependency of other project (osquery
> port for NetBSD). Currently pkgsrc ships with rather older release and
> it doesn't handle the full spectrum of languages available. There is
> an interesting approach in FreeBSD ports to package each binding for
> each language in a separated package.

I think having one package per programming language is a good approach.

I did not even see that we had an old version of thrift around, I simply added the package from the bug report. Sounds like we should look into updating the 0.7.0 ones. Tonnerre?

> 
> Do you think it makes sense?

Yes, and we already have that in a sense (there is ruby-thrift as a separate thing).

> Are you planning upgrade?

Sure!

—Benny.