From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 27 04:52:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 250711065674; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:52:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ota@j.email.ne.jp) Received: from mail.asahi-net.or.jp (mail2.asahi-net.or.jp [202.224.39.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC7D8FC19; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:52:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ota@j.email.ne.jp) Received: from localhost (pool-141-152-252-243.phlapa.east.verizon.net [141.152.252.243]) by mail.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10A9571E6; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:32:24 +0900 (JST) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:32:18 -0400 From: Yoshihiro Ota To: David Forsythe , Mark Linimon Message-Id: <20080427003218.8e647c3b.ota@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20080424234600.GA40079@rat.umd.edu> References: <20080424234600.GA40079@rat.umd.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Introduction X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:52:49 -0000 On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:46:02 -0400 David Forsythe 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