From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 14:41:17 2005 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 3D1B816A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:41:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8307B43DAD for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:41:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so639255wri for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 07:41:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fCAApLZQVWXD+XuMwgoJrto4TrRfiX2EvWwSuiaZg+5KnCPReUw4YtI6OMfLYdIEBnYGfza+4N1whNiMt7q3I939HFkNufDUl1TMKSXaxLSUKAr/vdWfvKoUuSRRqCU2ZSJbkItG//5eijOMZdUZ/avNYYtbumVwtocCw2cf5Og= Received: by 10.54.83.5 with SMTP id g5mr447138wrb; Thu, 19 May 2005 07:41:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.29.77 with HTTP; Thu, 19 May 2005 07:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <790a9fff05051907418391836@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:41:14 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel To: Matthew Soffen In-Reply-To: <1116511949.4994.27.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1116344389.10339.42.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050518161015.GA94920@xor.obsecurity.org> <1116439290.4769.9.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> <20050519105216.dt9hta6z28k4o48g@netchild.homeip.net> <20050519160428.25a1e630.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <1116511949.4994.27.camel@msoffen.iso-ne.com> cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Alexander Leidinger cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: automake19-1.9.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Scot Hetzel List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:41:17 -0000 On 5/19/05, Matthew Soffen wrote: > I am curious though, why did FreeBSD ports use things like automake19 > instead of the way Linux does it with automake-1.9 ? >=20 Probably because we thought of it first, and Linux tried to improve on it. = ;-)