JBoss port

[Ernst de Haan]

You misunderstand the concept of the BSD Ports System. The purpose is that 
applications can be installed by issuing a 'make install'. This is 
independent of the question how easy it was for the port maintainer to do 
the actual 'port'.

Ernst


On Wednesday 11 June 2003 18:53, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> Is this port really needed?
> Are there gonna be FreeBSD-specific patches?
>
> I dont think so.
>
> Besides, a "port" means something that is "ported" to FreeBSD.
> I dont think JBOSS needs any "porting".
>
> So why provide a "port"??
>
> (sorry to make trouble , while i haven't participated in any
> ports philosophical or technical conversation,
> but i hate to see (well my stats) 10% of ports broken).
>
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Volunteers for becoming the maintainer ?
> >
> > depends on how much work this is. I do not really have lots
> > of time.
> > I have not yet maintained a port, so I think I would have
> > to learn a lot first..
> >
> > Roman
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