From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Sep 12 07:36:50 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA12668 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 07:36:50 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA12657 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 07:36:46 -0700 Received: from www.ambook.org (spiders.com [199.224.7.188]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id HAA01118 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 07:36:24 -0700 Received: (from gwh@localhost) by www.ambook.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA28544 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 10:37:03 -0400 Message-Id: <199509121437.KAA28544@www.ambook.org> From: gwh@spiders.com (Gene W Homicki) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 10:37:00 -0400 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Updated Ports Web pages? Sender: ports-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi everyone, I'm new to this list, so if any of this has been covered recently, please let me apologize in advance. After porting a few apps myself to FreeBSD because I (stupidly) only checked the Web pages and not the FTP site directly for FreeBSD ports, I got fed up and whipped up a quick script to generate the Ports pages dynamically from a ports distribution. You can find an example of this at: http://www.spiders.com/cgi-bin/ports This script currently does not handle the "cross-reference" pages like "documentation", but the big plus is that it can always be up to date if it can be run on a mirror of the ports directory (or ideally on the main distribution on ftp.freebsd.org/wcarchive.cdrom.com). Again, if something like this is already in the works (and includes the cross reference pages), all the better. If not, I'll finish cleaning up the code, make sure there are no CGI-related security problems, and make it available for ftp to whichever of the mirrors wants it. Lastly, if anyone has any feedback on addinging functionality, I'm open to suggestions as well. Thanks! --Gene -- Gene W. Homicki gwh@spiders.com Objective Consulting, Inc. http://www.spiders.com/ Internet Presence Design voice: +1 914.353.3511