Subject: Re: same COMMENT and same DESCR for lang/guile*
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/26/2004 11:13:01
I don't have commit privs, but here are some diffs.

My take is that guile14 is crufty, and that we should work to update
anything that uses it to guile (1.6.x).  I suspect most things that
link with guile will work fine with 1.6.

For guile14:

--- DESCR.~1.2.~	Mon May 19 13:44:12 2003
+++ DESCR	Wed May 26 11:05:33 2004
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
 that implements the Scheme language plus various convenient facilities.
 It's designed so that you can link it into an application or utility to
 make it extensible. Our plan is to link this library into all GNU programs
-that call for extensibility.
+that call for extensibility.  This package is an old release of guile,
+and is present for use with programs that have not yet been upgraded.
--- Makefile.~1.18.~	Thu May 13 08:09:58 2004
+++ Makefile	Wed May 26 11:05:59 2004
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 MAINTAINER=		tech-pkg@NetBSD.org
 HOMEPAGE=		http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
-COMMENT=		GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension
+COMMENT=		GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension (old version)
 
 USE_BUILDLINK3=		YES
 GNU_CONFIGURE=		YES

For guile - I'm not sure this is appropriate since normally packages
are the stable release unless marked:

--- DESCR.~1.2.~	Mon May 19 13:44:11 2003
+++ DESCR	Wed May 26 11:08:08 2004
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
 that implements the Scheme language plus various convenient facilities.
 It's designed so that you can link it into an application or utility to
 make it extensible. Our plan is to link this library into all GNU programs
-that call for extensibility.
+that call for extensibility.  This package is the current stable
+release of guile.

-- 
        Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>