From owner-freebsd-libh Thu Mar 29 13:42:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5D037B71E for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:42:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Received: by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 6B1AB11; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:42:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6066B49A13; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:42:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:42:23 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Coleman To: Kris Kennaway Cc: libh@freebsd.org, op-tech@openpackages.org Subject: Re: PackageNG and OpenPackages In-Reply-To: <20010329132249.A6943@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does the PackageNG have a webpage? And, any idea how far along they are in their progress? The goal of Open Packages is to take the best features of each packaging system and incorporate them into one packaging system that can be adopted by all BSD groups. So I know we are interested in communicating. Chris Coleman Daemon News http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > As far as I can tell there isn't any communication between these two > camps: OpenPackages on the one hand, and the nascent PackageNG > developers on the FreeBSD side. There hasn't been much public > progress on the PackageNG side (which has been talked about on and off > for a long time, and I think actually predates OpenPackages), but > given that both groups are looking to develop a revamped packaging > system for FreeBSD (and others, on the OP side) it's sensible that > there be some dialogue here to avoid unnecessary pain down the road > when one of the projects comes to fruition and "stomps all over" the > work of the other. > > Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message