On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Gyan Mathur wrote:
> In response to Philip Hazel:
> > I have just placed the 1.90 release in
> >
> > ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/exim/exim-1.90.tar.gz
>
> A small point: would it be possible to link the latest version to
> exim-latest.tar.gz or similar? My reason for suggesting this is to do
> with the FreeBSD ports collection. A recently-installed FreeBSD
> machine here had got exim as one of its "ports"; the makefile went to
> the correct FTP site but then tried to fetch the 1.73 version! Now of
> course I know where to get the current file and what to do with it,
> but the FreeBSD ports are meant to make life easier and if the latest
> (or current stable?) version was always in the same place then this
> would be useful. (For those who don't know, the FreeBSD "ports" are
> essentially makefiles, for optional software, that collect the
> software by FTP and then build it with sensible options for FreeBSD.)
I don't see why not, in principle, but will this actually be sensible?
If a FreeBSD "port" was written for 1.73 it might be assuming things
that have changed in later versions of Exim, and I'm just wondering if
this might lead to muddle and confusion.
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