From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 12:18:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7141137B43E for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 12:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (localhost.gv.shawcable.net [127.0.0.1]) by h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f4CJL6c10942; Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Michael O'Henly" Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggesting an application to be added to ports collection... Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:06 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <01051109140600.01879@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> <01051111304200.01983@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> <3AFD7941.8775DC2B@DougBarton.net> In-Reply-To: <3AFD7941.8775DC2B@DougBarton.net> Cc: Doug Barton MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01051212210601.10753@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh, so that was a hint, was it? God, I hate subtlety. ;-) Actually, I hadn't considered porting it myself because I only know enough about programming to be dangerous. But, now that you mention it, that might be a constructive way to learn more. I'll give it some thought. Thanks. M. On Saturday 12 May 2001 10:56, Doug Barton wrote: > 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. -- Michael O'Henly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message