Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:13:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Let's nail some things down. Message-ID: <19981029161303.R25247@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810281942210.7780-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 07:50:50PM -0800 References: <19981029124325.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810281942210.7780-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 19:50:50 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Then you're not providing any incentive for people to do a true >> FreeBSD port. > > We need to define somethings here. > > hmmmm. Your the man with the ORA book on porting but I will throw these > ideas out there so I can understand things better. > > True FreeBSD Port: Software that has a "port kit" and installs on FreeBSD > cleanly with absolutely no extra effort required by the user or FreeBSD, > Inc. > > AnyOld FreeBSD Port: Software that has a "port kit" but the user or > FreeBSD. Inc has to tinker to get it to work right or create the "port > kit". > > "Works with" Port: Software that runs under emulation. > > Are these the distinctions that you are making? Hmm. Not quite. I think Licia put it more succinctly. Two of the categories are non-native: if it's ported specifically to FreeBSD, it's the best category. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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