From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 23 18:51:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F89637B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:51:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-48.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F89843ED8 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCE266B3A; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3BCF21656; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:51:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:51:37 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Hunter Peress Cc: Kris Kennaway , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BitTorrent Mirror of 5.0 Message-ID: <20030124025137.GA61607@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030123195701.GH60077@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030123202001.51397.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123202001.51397.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:20:01PM -0800, Hunter Peress wrote: > > Steps to getting the community to use this: > >=20 > > 1) Make a working port. I tried to port bittorrent once, but > > something (don't remember what) failed to compile. > BT is in python and hence requires no compilation. MAYBE you are talking = about > wxpython, which requires wxwindows and that might be where your error was. I don't recall, other than that I was following the included build instructions. > > 2) Post to FreeBSD lists to announce your BT mirror when releases are > > made. Mention why people might want to try it this way instead of > > using ftp which they already understand and love. >=20 > That IS exactly what I did, that is exactly why you are responding to me = right now. > This current email that I am writing is part of a thread that was started= for this > exact purpose. You omitted step 1, which is needed before you'll get any significant community buy-in (only the most dedicated people are going to manually download and build it on their own). Also, -chat is not really the best list for this..for example, it would be on-topic for -stable or -current and you'd reach your target audience there. Kris --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+MKo4Wry0BWjoQKURAvzLAJ9bYGy1GVNNQ7B/t888BTalNRAlmACg5adB jUwuichA3UBNNA0RIi+GU9k= =eAk+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message