request for a new port + package

[Kevin Oberman]

BTW, Public domain is forever. You can't change it because, the moment it
is dedicated to the public domain, you no longer have any claim on it. No
one has any claim on it. It is owned by the public. Of course, you can
claim ownership of any additions you write, but whatever existed that was
dedicated to the public domain is public forever. Don't think about
re-licensing it. That would be a false claim. You can't license what you
don't have any right to.

Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 7:22 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 7/5/18 7:03 am, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:22:32 +0800
>> Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/4/18 7:15 pm, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09.04.2018 14:16, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> how do i place a request for a new port + package?
>>>>> the sources for my requested tool are available at
>>>>> http://www.t3x.org/files/zenlisp.zip and the author of that tool has
>>>>> granted permission to move it from the existing "public domain"
>>>>> license to any "bsdl" license.
>>>>>
>>>> The package is created automatically once new port is created and
>>>> added to FreeBSD Ports collection. You can create and submit new
>>>> port yourself, just read
>>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
>>>>
>>> It seems to me that the description of what to do to make a port
>>> is somewhat recursive by which I mean you need to understand
>>> what it says before you read it. if you don't already know the jargon,
>>> it is all Greek. (Apologies to any Greeks on the list).
>>> I think it would be a pretty cool project to write a tool that asks
>>> lots of questions and then eventually spits out a port Makefile.
>>> it could allow the user to browse to places and then analyse the
>>> links used etc.
>>> I think the port writer's handbook is a bit intimidating to new ports
>>> submitters.
>>>
>> You might be interested in this: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12921
>>
>> Cheers :)
>>
>> MP
>>
>> great.. when I read it before it was hard to read but
> http://envirobotics.ca/portershb/tools-introduction.html
>
> makes it readable.
>
>
>
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