From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 20:53:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E0D16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.server.rpi.edu (smtp0.server.rpi.edu [128.113.53.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C0C43D1F for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp0.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3D3rXEd023890 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:53:34 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:53:32 -0400 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 03:53:34 -0000 At 11:40 PM -0400 4/12/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >What I'd like is some idea of whether this project is worth >pursuing. If not, then Darren and I will concentrate on some >other, less disruptive project.... > >If this project does not seem like it would be worth the effort, >then that will be perfectly okay too. Please let me know what >you think... Note that I am expecting that "silence" means the project is NOT worth doing. I can not commit these changes without help from some ports-collection experts, and I do not want to risk spending a few weeks of work on this only to find out that no one will be willing to commit the changes. So, I do not plan to continue working on this unless I have some indication that people really think it is worth doing. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu