On 27 Jan, phil grainger wrote:
> i suppose once midgard is stable it will end up
> in the freebsd ports collection, i suggested the
> midgard ppl contact the ports ppl ... that was the
> last i heard.
Now, this I think this issue was already solved
by Emile's quite conclusive email (yes, Midgard
is installable on FreeBSD, and the process should
even be a quite simple one).
http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94901200810775&w=2
As to supporting Midgard on different platforms, we
would certainly love to see Midgard available to every
OS, but aren't obliged to do it all by ourselves.
To be realistic, it is quite impossible to test all
possible OSs/distributions with the existing developer
base.
Because of this, if people on some platform want to
see an easily installable package of Midgard, I'd
suggest just going out and creating the package (and
possible needed binaries as well), as opposed to just
waiting for us to do it.
If we would have an active Midgard developer using
FreeBSD as a primary platform, then I suppose there
would also be a package/port available for it, but
at the moment that isn't so. We can't handle the
process of supporting all platforms out there
unless people using that particular platform
volunteer for the task.
Personally, I think *BSD is a nice platform, and
we've also discussed the possibility of moving
the project's main server to OpenBSD but so far
have declined. While this would surely help us
support the BSD world, the server is owned by
another organization (Grey Wolves), and we're
not sure of availability of ports of all
software they need for that platform.
> phil grainger
/Bergie
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