Hi Aaron, On 18 Jan, 2013, at 22:44, Aaron Zauner wrote: > I used to be involved with FreeBSD ports, by the way. If anyone is interested > in details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ > Gentoo sort of evolved out of this idea. Talking to the homebrew community > could be interesting!
A directory "ports" is awaiting your ideas right over here: ;-) https://github.com/fgeorgatos/easybuild.experimental/tree/master/contrib And what do you plan to do for lunch on Sat. 2/2 we said? (!!) I have been playing with freedbsd ports since the '90s and surely all these possibilities keep bugging me; what we need here is, to exploit the port system most suitable for pipelining to easybuild; Ref: http://www.mancoosi.org/edos/packages/ and http://cowbert.livejournal.com/166343.html Here are the succeeded packages from the automated run with pkgsrc, since Nov'12: https://github.com/fgeorgatos/easybuild.experimental/blob/master/contrib/pkgsrc/20121226/README_delivered_modules.txt [for "succeeded" as in "modulefile was delivered"] Notice that libraries are easy to get, while quite a few substrate packages are there (of course, it's not all roses as you often find later); anyway, these always prove useful as templates for "software scaffolding". to be continued, fotis
