From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 12: 1:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADA137B43E for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 12:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4BJ1jc31883; Fri, 11 May 2001 12:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105111901.f4BJ1jc31883@ptavv.es.net> To: michael@tenzo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggesting an application to be added to ports collection... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 May 2001 11:58:11 PDT." <01051111581102.01983@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 12:01:45 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Michael O'Henly" > Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:58:11 -0700 > > Maybe I'm just overlooking it, but I've scanned the Porter's Handbook as well > and I don't see anything here either about proposing apps for porting. > > There is an email address and I could send some mail, but > I figured there would be some sort of policy regarding this since FreeBSD is > largely based on contributions and voluntary efforts. Maybe I am missing what you are proposing. Chapter 2.6 "Submitting the port" tells you how to submit a port for inclusion. If you have an application you want ported, you need to do the work and then submit the port. Generally this is not too difficult, but very complex ports (like gnome) can be a very large project. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message