From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 3:57:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3484537B43C for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 03:57:57 -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 WAA33938 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:57:55 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <200008251057.WAA33938@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: langille.org To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:57:54 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: history of the ports tree Reply-To: dan@langille.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This went to ports back on the 16th, no replies. Any knowledge out there? Where can I find information about the history of the ports tree? Some of the questions I'd like to answer are: Did the ports tree originate with FreeBSD? If not, from where? Who did the initial work? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message