Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:41:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: discussion of porting Ports to other things? Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.94.961016113735.2206A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <xcd684aoo18.fsf@mach.uchicago.edu>
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On 16 Oct 1996, Soren Dayton wrote: > This is sort of where I am... Getting things like md5 are easy. I > assume that porting fetch cannot be that hard, so a lot of that is done > for me. I am curious if people have thought about doing the pacakge > stuff in SVR4 package jargon. md5 is easy. But fetch is impossible! Literally. It relies on aspects of stdio that are only in 4.4BSD and there seems to be no portable equivalent. This is one hellishly non-portable program! I would suggest anyone interested in a more portable ports-chain, consider reimplementing libftpio and fetch in C++, or maybe some sort of C wrapper to behave like 4.4BSD stdio. Any suggestions? (and don't say STREAMS! :-) And yes, I would like to use the SVR4 package format, simply because it is available, and would allow people to _use_ packaged ports without requiring any additional software. -- Jake
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