Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:57:32 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCrkan_Seng=FCn?= <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GNUstep Software in FreeBSD Message-ID: <22AC4151-ADC2-44CD-A871-C504D1204977@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4512AA5B.4080409@linuks.mine.nu> References: <4512AA5B.4080409@linuks.mine.nu>
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On Sep 21, 2006, at 8:06 AM, G=FCrkan Seng=FCn wrote: > I've seen that there is http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ to integrate =20 > GNOME > as complete desktop environment. > [ ... ] > There's already about 30-40 ports of GNUstep ports, and the number > will increase at least by 20-30 more. Typically, portmgr@ wants to see around fifty ports for a new top-=20 level category to be created in the ports tree; it also helps if the =20 relationship between the ports and/or their membership into this =20 category is very obvious, which would seem to be the case for ports =20 using GNUstep. If you would like to see this happen, the next step would be to =20 identify all of the ports which would go under this new category and =20 see what others think about the notion. > A meta package needs be created too. Is there a chance the FreeBSD > project can provide an official subpage for this, namely > http://www.freebsd.org/gnustep/ ? Sure, but this is a separate issue which probably should be discussed =20= on the freebsd-doc@ mailing list. If you have an existing page or =20 tree of HTML content which could go there, you should make that =20 available for people to consider & review; otherwise, you should =20 probably start with the Doc Project Primer: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/=20 index.html The content under http://www.freebsd.org/gnome is mostly a ChangeLog =20 of FreeBSD-specific GNOME stuff; I guess this is OK, but starting =20 with a pointer to the main site at www.gnome.org, plus a reference or =20= excerpt from the Handbook about setting up and using GNOME, rather =20 than just the ChangeLog-style stuff would be a lot more useful. In other words, adding a section about GNUstep to the Handbook would =20 probably be a more useful starting point then duplicating the =20 ChangeLog/History of GNUstep, as that info is already available on =20 the main sites of GNOME ("Latest News"), KDE ("Latest Announcements", =20= or GNUstep ("GNUstep News For 2006") anyway. --=20 -Chuck
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