From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 11:06:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CDF1065699 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:06:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A27FB8FC23 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:06:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOsSd-0003Ee-Lx for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:06:17 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.238]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KOsSd-0000e0-1z for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:06:15 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m71B6ERt017561 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:06:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m71B6ETv017560 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:06:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:06:14 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080801110614.GA17503@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 X-Spam-Level: - Subject: Re: future for FBSD on alpha X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:06:19 -0000 On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:34:25AM -0000, Angus MacGyver wrote: > > On Fri, August 1, 2008 00:06, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: > > > > Having us testing will help the port maintainers a lot. > > > Whilst I would support testing - I personally have fairly limited time to > build and test now - and quite a lot of sysadmins I know are in the same > boat. > > If there are enough people to do this - then it might just work. > > The we must do - if this is going to go ahead, - is to make reasonable > decisions about what ports are the "most wanted" - say apache22 and mysql > for example - and not "care" about something like "joe" (I just use these > as examples - after all one can use a different editor - but a different > webserver or DB is another matter) this sounds like a good idea - a list of most wanted ports. However, even 1 or 2 big ports might require lots of dependencies. For example I've 229 ports at present, of which only 20 or so are top level, like ImageMagick, xpdf, teTeX, some X clients. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423