From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Oct 27 11:13:59 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E272E40BB7 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Received: from bs1.fjl.org.uk (bs1.fjl.org.uk [84.45.41.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "bs1.fjl.org.uk", Issuer "bs1.fjl.org.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5FF0A91 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.1.150] (host81-134-87-65.range81-130.btcentralplus.com [81.134.87.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by bs1.fjl.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v9RBDZ96034920 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:13:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Message-ID: <59F314E5.4080306@fjl.co.uk> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:13:41 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt Reply-To: frank2@fjl.co.uk Organization: Frank Leonhardt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: When is a FreeBSD port not a port? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:13:59 -0000 I've written a "few" utilities over the years that I've made available in various places, but it might make sense to put them in ports/sysutils. However, they were written on BSD and are therefore not ports. Should I submit them anyway (if I find time to clean them up, of course)? Or if not, any (polite) suggestions as to where I should put them? I don't use GitHub or SourceForge (too old to change my ways, and I normally work off-line anyway). e.g. http://www.fjl.co.uk/free-stuff ------ On a slightly different point, I needed something to rate-throttle a stream and before I wrote one I checked the ports tree for something called "throttle", thinking this a likely name, and found just what I was looking for - except it's been abandoned and removed. It was all of 15 minutes to write a new one, but does anyone know anything about the original? Thanks Frank.