From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 27 11:00:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04545 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexis.net ([204.92.49.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04540 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (james@localhost) by nexis.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA20877; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:58:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:58:05 -0400 (EDT) From: James FitzGibbon To: Narvi cc: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3969: New port - p5-gd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Narvi wrote: > The morale - if you have an idea of making a port, do it right away *and* > submit it. Or, perhaps we should do something similar to what CPAN does. A module can be in one of several states: idea, development, alpha, beta, or release. When someone gets an idea to do a module, they can put it into the CPAN registry even if it doesn't exist - it just has a state of 'i'. Something for the great ports Genesis, if that even happens... -- j. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | James FitzGibbon james@nexis.net | | The Nexis Group Voice/Fax : 416 410-0100 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------