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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2001 12:01:45 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        michael@tenzo.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suggesting an application to be added to ports collection... 
Message-ID:  <200105111901.f4BJ1jc31883@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 May 2001 11:58:11 PDT." <01051111581102.01983@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> 

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> From: "Michael O'Henly" <michael@tenzo.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:58:11 -0700
> 
> Maybe I'm just overlooking it, but I've scanned the Porter's Handbook as well 
> and I don't see anything here either about proposing apps for porting.
> 
> There is an email address <ports@freebsd.org> and I could send some mail, but 
> I figured there would be some sort of policy regarding this since FreeBSD is 
> largely based on contributions and voluntary efforts.

Maybe I am missing what you are proposing. Chapter 2.6 "Submitting the
port" tells you how to submit a port for inclusion. If you have an
application you want ported, you need to do the work and then submit
the port. Generally this is not too difficult, but very complex ports
(like gnome) can be a very large project.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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