Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:16:31 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is a FreeBSD port not a port? Message-ID: <520fa3b2-8be7-8141-7e8d-9a60c6d1a1ed@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <59F314E5.4080306@fjl.co.uk> References: <59F314E5.4080306@fjl.co.uk>
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On 27/10/2017 12:13, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > I've written a "few" utilities over the years that I've made available > in various places, but it might make sense to put them in > ports/sysutils. However, they were written on BSD and are therefore not > ports. > > Should I submit them anyway (if I find time to clean them up, of > course)? Or if not, any (polite) suggestions as to where I should put > them? I don't use GitHub or SourceForge (too old to change my ways, and > I normally work off-line anyway). > > e.g. http://www.fjl.co.uk/free-stuff > By all means, please do submit your FreeBSD specific code as a "port". There's precedent -- various ports for periodic jobs or other FreeBSD-ish things. We aren't hung up on the precise meaning of "ports" -- it's really a collection of software handily prepared to compile easily and (increasingly so over time) be made available as pre-compiled binary packages. Cheers, Matthew
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