From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 23:19:20 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 3DE6F37B43F for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:19:18 -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 SAA44490; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:19:11 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <200008260619.SAA44490@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: langille.org To: "Jason C. Wells" Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:19:11 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: history of the ports tree Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200008251057.WAA33938@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Aug 2000, at 10:04, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > > > Did the ports tree originate with FreeBSD? If not, from where? Who did > > the initial work? > > Yes I believe. Jordan I believe. > > This is just from something I remember reading on the lists a long time > ago. I've been looking through the CVS repository. I've found this: /usr/ports/Makefile created in Aug 1994 /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk created Aug 1994 Looking at the original ports, they also seem to date back to Aug 1994. Perhaps that was the start date. -- 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