From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 09:41:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4991065676 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:41:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9628FC1C for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:41:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1KzpkM-0007fX-Dj; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:18 +0300 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <02140738@bb.ipt.ru> <20081111103040.94946nhqswycg4ws@webmail.leidinger.net> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:41:10 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20081111103040.94946nhqswycg4ws@webmail.leidinger.net> (Alexander Leidinger's message of "Tue\, 11 Nov 2008 10\:30\:40 +0100") Message-ID: <69987625@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stas Timokhin , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is a new port acceptable (PR/126872) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:41:20 -0000 Alexander Leidinger writes: > Quoting Boris Samorodov (from Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:49:17 +0300): > >> Hello All, >> >> >> there is a PR to create a new linux port: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/126872 >> >> This port seems to be an infrastructure linux port. Usually we create >> new infrastructure linux ports when they are needed to run some other >> linux application. This port is not required by any. Hence I'm not >> sure if this port is needed. >> >> Should this port be committed? What do you think? Thanks! > > What about asking the submitter how this is supposed to be used? Yep, that was my intention to do after reading some feedback here. ;-) > So far I haven't come up with a situation where it makes sense to > commit it. If it is used in a chroot, then I would assume one of the > gentoo linux base ports, and then the gentoo infrastructure should be > used to install it. If it is used as a stand-alone scripting language, > the native one should work too. If it is used from some linux binary > (linking to tcl libs), it would be interesting to know which binaries > are involved, and if there will be a port for them or not (if it is > some popular commercial package, there may be no port available soon, > but it would make sense to have the linux-tcl port in the tree). Well, this is just what I think. Thanks! OK, CCing the submitter of the PR. Stas, can you please elaborate on how are you planning to use this port? WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve