From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 16:57:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E8016A416 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:57:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD3E43D45 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:57:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout03/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k8LGwSrd011393; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k8LGvXv6007792; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:57:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4512AA5B.4080409@linuks.mine.nu> References: <4512AA5B.4080409@linuks.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <22AC4151-ADC2-44CD-A871-C504D1204977@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:57:32 -0700 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCrkan_Seng=FCn?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GNUstep Software in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:57:39 -0000 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