Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:11:23 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need help with the last-two-ports! Message-ID: <20100123031123.GA26910@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100123000539.821635f9.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100121210658.GA10757@thought.org> <20100121221929.6ceaba00.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100122001430.GC10775@thought.org> <20100122021557.f52bc107.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100122033309.GF10775@thought.org> <20100123000539.821635f9.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:05:39AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:33:09 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > surprised how many things depend on that nspr... wow. > > It seems to be because many other things depend on Netscape > (or the corresponding HTML renderer or who knows what); from > the port's description: > > Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a > platform-neutral API for system level and > libc like functions. The API is used in the > Mozilla client, many of Netscape/AOL/iPlanet's > and other software offerings. > > So why port software complicatedly to FreeBSD when all > the OS-specific stuff can be abstracted by another port? :-) > It wasn't until I checked into the tests that I started to get a clue; and since i never checked into the code, I can't say that much. But if these functions were to be a kind of libc that compiled and ran Everywhere, these guys deserve five gold stars. > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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