From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 6 19:57:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA13380 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:57:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA13326 Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA27091; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 20:54:55 -0700 Message-Id: <199604070354.UAA27091@rover.village.org> To: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: Fresco port Cc: Joel Ward , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 06 Apr 1996 22:00:59 EST Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 20:54:55 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : I think you ought to give it a try before you say "it's nothing big". It : is something really big, all tied up in lots and lots of Imakefiles, and : hidden behind some horrible complicated hacks to make it's own : namespace. On top of that, it's a moving target, under development so : it's always changing. Most of the imake stuff isn't horrible to fix, unless you are completely new to Imake (in which case it is likely impossible). In the version I took a look at last year, they were doing some interesting hacks to have lots of stuff automatically generated. Why they needed to do this was hand waved away, but it did seem pretty gross. Warner