Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:19:11 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: history of the ports tree Message-ID: <200008260619.SAA44490@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000825100257.15363B-100000@utah> References: <200008251057.WAA33938@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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On 25 Aug 2000, at 10:04, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > > > Did the ports tree originate with FreeBSD? If not, from where? Who did > > the initial work? > > Yes I believe. Jordan I believe. > > This is just from something I remember reading on the lists a long time > ago. I've been looking through the CVS repository. I've found this: /usr/ports/Makefile created in Aug 1994 /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk created Aug 1994 Looking at the original ports, they also seem to date back to Aug 1994. Perhaps that was the start date. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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