From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 12:36:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0134D106566B; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:36:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from mx0.gid.co.uk (mx0.gid.co.uk [194.32.164.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCE98FC15; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:36:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.237] (87-194-64-74.dsl.cnl.uk.net [87.194.64.74]) by mx0.gid.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p3DCOFO2084520; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:24:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Bob Bishop In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:24:09 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <3095B667-A2DD-40A6-95FE-0A59DEF853CF@gid.co.uk> References: To: Bernhard Froehlich X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future direction of virtualbox-ose port on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:36:42 -0000 Hi, On 13 Apr 2011, at 12:38, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > Hi VirtualBox users. >=20 > I'm sending this because there are a few problems in how we currently > maintain the emulators/virtualbox-ose ports on FreeBSD. [etc] A question: woud there be any advantage in separating out the kernel = module from the rest of it? Just asking, because I have no idea about = the stability of the components and interfaces. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 940 1243 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 940 1295 mobile +44 (0)783 626 4518