On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 11:34:50PM -0500, Stuart Cassoff wrote: > J.C. Roberts wrote: >> The problem with the OpenCV project is *releases* are fairly neglected >> (i.e. most everyone seems to only work from svn/cvs). > I've butted heads with a few people on this issue (other projects, not > OpenCV) > and have had little/no success convincing die-hard cvs'ers to cut releases. > All that happens is I get frustrated as I see software that I'd like to > port but can't,
You can port software that's only available in someones cvs server, just make a tarball and put it in a place where it can be found for a few years. You might want to ask here about such a place, there are a few devs who host distfiles. The _general_ rule is that only releases can be in ports, but if a particular piece of software doesn't have such a thing and the developers consider rev X fairly stable, it's ok to port that. Examples from the top of my head include webkit or llvm. Tobias > while they wonder aloud why their software isn't more popular. > > Thanks for listening, > Stu >
