Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:33:55 -0400 From: "Walter Venable" <weaseal@hotmail.com> To: flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org, isak@isak.is Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Drop of portindex Message-ID: <BAY18-F63U5zjzjPWL000018b23@hotmail.com>
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>From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> >To: isak@isak.is >CC: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Drop of portindex >Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:55:18 +0200 > >On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:45:26 +0000 >"Ísak Ben." <isak@isak.is> wrote: > >Hi, > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:18:47AM +0000, Ísak Ben. wrote: > > > Someone with the skills and the time could write another "portindex" > > > to do exactly the same thing but all new code and a GPL style > > > license.....and voila, problem solved. Could this be the solution > > > or am i just spewing out nonsense ? > > > > Yes, that'd entirely be possible. The only restriction would > > probably that you must not use parts of the original "portindex" > > source. > >I had some spare time yesterday and started writing an INDEX generator. >The code for everything sans the b_depends and r_depends is finished by >now. Those two are a bit tricky because you have to take into account >some special variables like the USE_GNOME stuff. To avoid having to suck >and parse those files each time I'm thinking about a pre-parsed bsd.*.mk >cache, which shouldn't be hard to implement. > >I'm writing the code in C and the license will be, of course, BSD. >Hopefully I'll have a preview demo by the end of the week. > Aha! Fantastic. A man of action. This is the clear solution. Great work, I'll be first in line to test it out. -Walter Venable _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
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