Ports & Pkg Mgr

[David Leimbach]

[related information]

Darwinports developers are currently working on re-designing the system 
for usability
and providing a C callable API.   We are hoping this will make it 
easier to write good
applications for managing ports.

I am not sure how much time has been spent on this new idea as many 
darwinports
developers are also apple employees with their hands full with Panther 
stuff.

Dave
On Sep 27, 2003, at 9:42 PM, James Frazer wrote:
Maybe the kernel mailing list isn't the best place for this post but 
it seems to be the most relevant list I could find.

I was wondering if there was any consideration for making use of the 
darwin-ports infrastructure as a possible future option?

I've been following the darwin-ports efforts off and on for the last 
year or so and although not as mature as the current FreeBSD Ports 
system it looks as though it will be more future-proof.

Since it works independent of pkg-management it is foreseeable that it 
could work in hand with dfbsd's goals.

What are your feelings on the matter?

-James