On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:43:00 Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Nikola Lečić wrote: [...] > > I must add that I tried two times to contact two FreeBSD developers > > who > > (according to the public sources) seemed to be interested in this; > > never got a single word of reply. Having in mind that I offered a > > help, some experience and maintaining/testing availability, I can't > > understand this. It's very discouraging. > > please feel free to take that as a sign that you should take the ball > and run with it. :)
Well, according to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040511.html porting of TeXLive has already been undertaken. :-) The problem is that it's not possible to get any further information on this work. But anyway, I don't think I can do it alone, of course. I could probably create port(s), but the biggest challenge is that so many other ports depend on teTeX, and re-configuring all dependencies obviously requires huge experience, computer horsepower and developers' hands. Therefore a help was offered and sharing future maintaining load as well: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-July/042729.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-August/043453.html So, once again: * If any FreeBSD developer is currently working on TeXLive port, please, can we users know something about it? * If not, is any FreeBSD developer willing to lead that project, publicly discuss port's infrastructure/concept, and then give us (who are happy to help :-)) some tasks? * Or some user should start porting (and discuss infrastructure first?) and then developers will jump in? -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
