AW: (RADIATOR) FreeBSD port of radiator?

[Wallner Martin]

Maybe I can shed a bit more light on this... 

Since RADIATIR is not freeware, this port package normally consists only of the package files. You have to provide the source .tgz. 

For the new version you now only have to wait until one of the package-managers gets  his hands on the 4-version of Radiator and commits the new package files for this version (without the source-tarball of Radiator)

It's the same for the PKG-System (NetBSD, OpenBSD), where on the wip-tree (WorkInProgress) of the PKG-System you can also find the RADIATOR-Installsystem ... 

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Von: owner-radiator at open.com.au [mailto:owner-radiator at open.com.au] Im Auftrag von Kurt Jaeger
Gesendet: Freitag, 08. Februar 2008 06:21
An: Hugh Irvine
Cc: radiator at open.com.au
Betreff: Re: (RADIATOR) FreeBSD port of radiator?

Hi!

> Radiator is a source code product entirely written in Perl which runs 
> unchanged on any platform that has Perl available.
> 
> No porting is required.

Ok, maybe the wording of the freebsd community is a bit 'specific'.

Basically, a freebsd port is a way to integrate a piece of software in the dependency tree in a automatable way.

Which helps enormously if one of the dependencies needs updating (say, mysql is updated, and needs an update for DBD::mysql).

Most of the time, a relativly small Makefile and a few lists of file checksums are sufficient. Attached is the 3.17.1 ports Makefile, as an example.

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