From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 6 22:01:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D8516A422 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:01:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from pinnacle.akherb.com (94-37-237-24.gci.net [24.237.37.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F2243D46 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:01:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id AE8385E72; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:01:14 -0900 (AKST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pinnacle.akherb.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from [192.168.2.131] (209-124-141-064.ip.arctic.net [209.124.141.64]) by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128235E39; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:01:13 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Alaska Paradise Travel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:00:22 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602062207.53067.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> <43E7BE23.1030806@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <43E7BE23.1030806@t-hosting.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2392638.tgMiumA98I"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602061301.07150.akbeech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= , FreeBSD Prospect Subject: Re: Possibility to submit requests for new ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:01:16 -0000 --nextPart2392638.tgMiumA98I Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 06 February 2006 12:22, K=F6vesd=E1n G=E1bor wrote: > FreeBSD Prospect wrote: > >Hi! > > > >I was wondering, if there is any communication channel to request new > > ports. > > > >I mean, isn't it likely, that a FreeBSD user (not a codergeek able to > > create ports himself) is looking for some software, which is available > > open-source for Linux, but hasn't been ported yet? > > > >Wouldn't it be useful, to have an own mailing list for that? > > > >Or is freebsd-ports thought to be suiteable for that matter (I am > > subscribed to that mailing-list, but didn't see much traffic until now, > > and no port requests at all)? > > Hello, > > I think freebsd-ports@ is suitable for that. It's true that we don't see > port request there. Maybe this is beacuse the most used softwares are > already ported. But I think new ideas are always welcome. Not only > committers can help you, there are a lot of contributors subscribed to > the freebsd-ports@ list, so please feel free to write there and maybe > somebody will take care of your request. > > Cheers, > > Gabor Kovesdan It would also be helpful if you specified the app(s) you are interested in. If it's a popular linux app, you might find that someone is already working= on=20 it. Also, if you do a bit of homework on Linux compatibility you'll find it= 's=20 not usually difficult to "roll your own". See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html Beech =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - akbeech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart2392638.tgMiumA98I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD58ci1HPO4IQJSE0RAl6nAJ9eg9QJSapvDwPlp3bCwUIIvOBmjACdErqj SvoN1EktdpnrTO9L504mbCE= =2dMx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2392638.tgMiumA98I--