From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 10:56:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C4537B43E for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 10:56:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA61387; Sat, 12 May 2001 10:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3AFD7941.8775DC2B@DougBarton.net> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:56:17 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: michael@tenzo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Gerard Samuel Subject: Re: Suggesting an application to be added to ports collection... References: <01051109140600.01879@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> <3AFC156A.FBB04725@optonline.net> <01051111304200.01983@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael O'Henly wrote: > > OK, I'll bite. ;-) > > I've scanned chapter 4 of the Handbook and I haven't found anything on how to > suggest that an app be ported. Lots on how to port apps and how to submit > ported apps... So take the hint. :) Before I ported my first app I didn't know how to do it either. Chances are, if it's a relatively simple app that uses standard conventions it will be a simple port. You will get infinitely more help from the ports list with a question like, "I'm trying to port the latest version of and I'm having problems trying to get it to build because of " than just a request for someone else to do it for you. Good luck, Doug -- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message