From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 19:16:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83EF537B401 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brokenarrow.night-light.net (brokenarrow.night-light.net [213.145.164.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1135E43FA3 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:16:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonas@whobynumbers.com) Received: from jonas (jonas@jonas.pinkfloydsound.com [217.118.34.42]) h692IUp4003642 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:18:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <084d01c345c0$ba34b680$2a2276d9@jonas> From: "Jonas Kvinge" To: Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:20:50 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: FreeBSD Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 02:16:33 -0000 Hi, I have written two UNIX programs for IRC. One is an Internet Relay Chat Proxy and the other is an Internet Relay Chat Bot (robot). Both programs are written in C and run on most unix systems including FreeBSD. I personally run FreeBSD on both of my servers. Both my programs are free, but one of the problems I'm having since I made them available to the open is to promote them. I was then wondering if it could be possible to get these programs into the FreeBSD ports, because it would be a great chance that somebody actually got to know about them and started using them, and a great chance for me to get some feedback so I can improve whatever necessary. When I look in the FreeBSD ports I see that there are many simular programs. However camparing mine to some of those in the ports, I believe mine are better. An example is my ircproxy, in the ports you have bnc and muh, I have tried both those but I wasn't very happy with them. My IRC bot, eclipsed doesn't beat eggdrop, eggdrop is still the best IRC bot available. But my bot, eclipsed has some very uniqe features and is far better then other bots in the ports such as "dancer" and "darkbot". I hope you can take my programs for consideration for the ports. ircproxy: www.ircproxy.night-light.net The project orignally started in the fall of 1997, it wasn't available offically until 2001. The current release has proven to be very stable and working. On the web page there should be enough documentation to get you started. eclipsed: www.eclipsed.org The project orignally started in the fall of 1997, it wasn't available offically until 2000. The current release is very old, but is working very well. I have been working on the new release for about 2 years, it still isn't ready, thus the current release is very old, but I'm patching it if I find any bugs. The documentation is not very good but should be enough to get you started. Thanks for reading, any reply is appreciated. --- Jonas Kvinge [ www.jonaskvinge.com | www.whobynumbers.com | www.pinkfloydsound.com ] "The Who is a bloody wild animal and it has to be fed chunks of raw meat and Southern Comfort. It can't feed on anything less." Pete Townshend, New York Times, June 13th, 1974.