Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:32:18 -0400 From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> To: David Forsythe <dforsythe@gmail.com>, Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Introduction Message-ID: <20080427003218.8e647c3b.ota@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20080424234600.GA40079@rat.umd.edu> References: <20080424234600.GA40079@rat.umd.edu>
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:46:02 -0400 David Forsythe <dforsythe@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > My name is David Forsythe and I'll be working on allowing parallel builds in the > ports collection for Summer of Code this year. I'm a second year student at the > University of Maryland, College Park studying computer science. > > I'm extremely excited to work on this project over the summer and I hope my work > is beneficial to the FreeBSD community. I was already planning on devoting a > bunch of my free time this summer to working on this type of thing, so an > @freebsd.org alias, a t-shirt, and a bit of cash are just icing on the cake (no > seriously, getting a FreeBSD mail alias excited me so much I'm a little bit > embarrassed...) > > I hope that my project turns out well and I can continue to work with the FreeBSD development > community far into the future. Working with you guys is really a dream come > true! > > > Dave Welcome. I have once implemented a tool to support parallel builds in the port system, indeed. There were a couple of designs and I chose to write a wrapper program to the existing ports infrastructure such that the wrapper such that every build and run-time dependencies are built in parallel prior to target packages. You can find more about it at http://uyota.asablo.jp/blog/cat/portsplus/ I would like to participate to the project as another adviser as it is also my interest. I believe that I can provide good comments and feedback to this project from my experiences. Thanks. Hiro
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