From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 25 23:19:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3338337B423 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA44497 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:19:39 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <200008260619.SAA44497@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: langille.org To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:19:39 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: (Fwd) Re: history of the ports tree Reply-To: dan@langille.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just in case anyone here can help: ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Dan Langille To: "Jason C. Wells" Subject: Re: history of the ports tree Copies to: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Send reply to: dan@langille.org Date sent: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:19:08 +1200 On 25 Aug 2000, at 10:04, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > > > Did the ports tree originate with FreeBSD? If not, from where? Who > > did the initial work? > > Yes I believe. Jordan I believe. > > This is just from something I remember reading on the lists a long time > ago. I've been looking through the CVS repository. I've found this: /usr/ports/Makefile created in Aug 1994 /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk created Aug 1994 Looking at the original ports, they also seem to date back to Aug 1994. Perhaps that was the start date. ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message