From owner-freebsd-ports Thu May 28 11:38:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24746 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 11:38:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.westbend.net (ns1.westbend.net [207.217.224.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24739 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 11:37:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from admin (admin.westbend.net [207.217.224.195]) by mail.westbend.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25538 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 13:37:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Message-ID: <022801bd8a67$bbc8b740$c3e0d9cf@admin.westbend.net> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "FreeBSD-Ports" Subject: Re: ports/4878: Could somebody please add it to the Ports Collection? Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 13:37:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: Matthew Hunt >On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 12:46:30PM -0500, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > >> Just wondering when the apache-FrontPage port will be added to the ports >> collection. > >"When somebody feels like it." > >I suspect that the main problem is that most of us committers are not >in a position to test it, not having Windows machines to do FP stuff >from to verify minimal functionality. > Not having a windows machine to test the functionality of the port is a set back to getting it commited to the collection. But I have had several third parties testing the port out, to ensure that it is functional. Even one of the coreteam members ( Poul-Henning Kamp ), checked the port and helped provide a few patches for the port. >Despite that, I had some free time a week or two ago and figured I'd >just make sure it built, installed, packaged, and deinstalled, and >assume that the actual functionality was correct since people seem to be >using it. :-) However, ftp.microsoft.com decided that I was undeserving, >and just stopped sending me data midway through the transfer. I've >been devoting my attention to other ports instead since then. > Thanks for the effort to try to test it out. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message