Re: Should there be a seperate mailing list for ports?

[esmith <esmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eirik Nygaard wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:41:16PM +0000, esmith wrote:
>
> > Should there be a separate mailing list for ports?
>
> I think bugs@ and submit@ should be enough at the moment, what I would
> like is a list more oriented for discussion and question about the system and
> hacking on the source of DragonFly.

I think that's what a seperate list for ports would accomplish. It would 
leave kernel@ for "discussion and question about the system and hacking 
on the source of DragonFly" and give userland apps their own homeland.

Maybe this is over-the-top but, I'll just throw it out there. Any 
comments are welcome.

I was thinking of discussions like the prior thread "building X on 
DragonFly", while this could be posted to bugs@, it would be nice to see 
people reporting ports they have built successfully without any trouble 
and the date this was accomplished. Or short How-To build posts, to 
barrow a linux-ism.

We could check the list before wasting our time building a port that 
will fail. Simply because no one reported a bug, doesn't mean the port 
will build. No one may have tried it yet. Or in the case of X11, one 
symbolic link means the difference between leaving a build unattended or 
not. On slower machines, a build could run for hours before failing. I'd 
like to know in advance.

For example, rxvt built with no problems and I've managed to build a 
surprising ( to a new user like me ) number of other ports.

Suggestion:
We could have seperate lists for each major release of dragonfly like 
ports_df_1_0 and ports_df_1_1, etc... Then each root post in a thread 
could be the name of a port, such as, "x11/rxvt", mirroring the ports 
tree, and over time people would simply add replies to submit 
information on this port. It would organize running discussions like the 
building KDE threads that are now posted in  kernel@.

DF will have it's own packaging system in the future, and that, too, can 
have its own list as it will have its own issues to deal with.