Cool. Thanks for the links! I'll be joining you guys for lunch i guess, i subscribed to the doodle thing at least :)
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Fotis Georgatos <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
