FreeBSD Ports Collection Breaks 10,000 Ports

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FreeBSD Ports Collection Breaks 10,000 Ports

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 31, 2003 @06:04AM from the 10k-non-race dept.

sremick writes "After breaking the 9,000 mark in July, the FreeBSD ports collection was well on its way of crossing 10,000 by the end of 2003. Sure enough, we made it! According to freshports, the number of ports in the FreeBSD ports tree currently stands at 10,015. This little graph is also nice, though not completely current. Way to go, FreeBSD!"

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The title by aridhol · 2003-12-31 06:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

That title makes it look like changes to the port system broke all the ports. Maybe "exceeds" rather than "breaks"?

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Just wait... by zulux · 2003-12-31 06:13 · Score: 3, Funny

I hear a port of apt-get is in the works!!!!!

(kidding)

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1. Re:Just wait... by TheRaven64 · 2003-12-31 08:04 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  The saved man hours in a centeralized ports system would be amazing.
  Even more man-hours would be saved if people wrote in ISO C using only POSIX functionality, without littering their code with Linux-isms, or worse still distribution-specific things. Creating a package is relatively easy once you can make the code compile.
  For something done right, look at Psi. The same code builds on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac. When the first Mac version was released, none of the developers even had a Mac (they just compiled it on someone else's machine). This is possible by coding to cross-platform APIs (in the case of Psi, the only dependency is Qt, which runs almost anywhere).
  
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Timeline Summary by MBCook · 2003-12-31 06:46 · Score: 4, Insightful

Timeline summary:
Time to reach 1000 ports: 30 Months Time to reach 2000 ports: 18 Months Time to reach 3000 ports: 12 Months Time to reach 4000 ports: 10 Months Time to reach 5000 ports: 6 Months Time to reach 6000 ports: 6 Months Time to reach 7000 ports: 6 Months Time to reach 8000 ports: 6 Months Time to reach 9000 ports: 6 Months Time to reach 10000 ports: 6 Months

Seems development has been rather steady for a while now. I predict 11,000 ports in... 6 months.

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Re:Ports by kernelistic · 2003-12-31 07:21 · Score: 5, Informative

Here's a good start...
cd /usr/ports make readmes
You'll want to go grab a sandwhich at this point while it goes through all of the ports and creates their associated readme files. You'll then be able to use your favorite browser to list the ports and their descriptions. The URL you want file:///usr/ports/README.html .
10,000 ports... by cperciva · 2003-12-31 07:29 · Score: 4, Interesting

... and three of them are mine.

Makes one realize how insignificant one's own contribution is, when one has contributed less than 0.03% of the total.

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Re:Ports by no_l0gic · 2003-12-31 07:57 · Score: 4, Informative

My favorite FreeBSD ports related reference:
http://www.freshports.org/

News of new/updated ports as well as a searchable index of all ports (and you can navigate the site the same as your ports directory structure).

Also, on a somewhat related note, you know of the `cd /usr/ports && make search name=blah` or key=blah feature, right?

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