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Re: fox toolkit



On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:39:19PM -0400, David Howland wrote:
> the fox toolkit in pkgsrc is horribly out of date it seems.  x11/fox is 
> at version 1.0.  wip/fox is at version 1.2.  The current stable release 
> is at version 1.4 and devel is 1.5.  It seems that many applications are 
> written that require older versions of the fox toolkit.  I have an app 
> I'd like to package up that requires 1.4.  So I need to package up the 
> new version but I don't think I should over-write the existing version. 
>  Perhaps we should do something like this...
> 
> create 4 packages:
> fox10         1.0.x
> fox12         1.2.x
> fox           1.4.x
> fox-devel     1.5.x
> 
> similar to other packages that have multiple versions in pkgsrc.  Does 
> this sound about right?

Yes, it does.

Can the packages coexist?

Cheers,
 Thomas


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