Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 10:53:09 -0700 (PDT) From: kosmos <kosmos@bowhill.yi.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports Options Paper Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009031051150.1896-100000@bowhill.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <20000903052226.E1205@radon.gryphonsoft.com>
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Is there some place where Neil's and anyone elses papers/proposals on this subject can be viewed? That is, if there have been any written so far.. --Allan On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > Hi all, > > This is the fruit of my brain's unused cycles, several nights of > sleepless thought, and several weeks of pondering. > > Please note that any egotistical statements (i.e. this proposal will > solve everybody's problems etc.) are hereby retracted if serious flaws > are found with this proposal. :-P > > Failing that, I think there's plenty of room for improvement, and my > goal is to have an implementation written by October 3, 2000, and tested > by October 15, 2000. > > But I do think I've thought this out quite well.. and now that I've > finally offloaded most of my ideas (maybe there's something I missed > that I thought up previously), I'm hoping we can finally get the ports > collection to become the world's best package management system. > > I think I'm going to get some sleep now. Finally. > > Till next time, > -- > Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> <will@FreeBSD.org> > GCS/E/S @d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB++++$ P+ L- E--- W+ N-- !o ?K w--- > O- M+ V- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+++ D+ > G++ e>++++ h! r- y? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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