From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 31 20:37:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 917DC16A41C for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 20:37:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6273743D53 for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 20:37:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 5D68914AD4; Tue, 31 May 2005 15:37:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:37:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Christopher Nehren In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody have time to create a new port? 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: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:37:46 -0000 On Tue, 31 May 2005, Christopher Nehren wrote: > many Linux developers are in the mindset that nothing aside from Linux > exists or indeed is even worthy of consideration. It's worse than that, I'm afraid: there's a current thread on /. about how one of the RedHat developers is actively _discouraging_ portability considerations for anything other than Linux because "it slows things down." Sigh. mcl