2008/3/3 Colin Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 02/03/2008, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > :Gestalt is now available for DragonFly from: > > > > > > Very interesting! Have you considered creating a pkgsrc package > > for it? That would integrate it into the package framework for > > several BSDs (including DragonFly). > > I briefly thought about it. > > To compile from source requires two other libraries - one of which > would mean a snapshot from subversion, the other needs an alpha test > version plus 3 patches. So for now, no. Later perhaps.
The other thing is, it is extremely tedious to have to package source code in a large number of different formats, depending upon the operating system. It would be really nice if an XML standard for software packaging could be agreed upon. Then all a maintainer would have to do is write the package content descriptor XML file once, and run the packer command for the specific operating system.
