Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 05:56:50 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone else wanting a native port of the General Mesh Viewer? Message-ID: <35D02371.637CC5C3@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980809205439.3657E-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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I understand why you are interested :-).
Linux binaries ports are against my principles: It suggests we should never
have a native port. If the sources were available, I'd surely port it.
BTW I am only asking to drop a line to GMV's author, it could end up
promoting FreeBSD in LANL
Pedro.
Jason C. Wells wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>
> >Frank Ortega, the author of GMV, told me that I am the first person to
> >ask for a FreeBSD port of his utility. He also stated that at Los
> >Alamos National Laboratory he didn't know anyone using FreeBSD, but if
> >we prove (by requesting the port) that a FreeBSD version would be useful
> >he wouldn't doubt in releasing a binary.
> >If you are interested, please drop Frank a line:
> >
> > http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/XCM/gmv/GMVHome.html
>
> If you do the porting yourself, he will probably like that. I noticed that
> there is a Linux port. You can run the app under linux emulation.
>
> I am interested, but I have no time.
>
> Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering
> Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/
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