Hi Jean-Sebastien, On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Jean-Sebastien Delfino <jsdelf...@apache.org> wrote: >> thanks for your feedback. You are right as long as Tuscany native >> hasn't been released as a pre-build package that can be installed on >> an operating system it doesn't make sense to use libraries as >> dependencies coming pre-packaged with a particular OS or package >> management system. Instead I should setup my own staging area >> containing all the various dependencies. Tho, in the long run I am >> interested in pushing those dependencies as FreeBSD ports into the >> FreeBSD ports tree cause there you could have development snapshots of >> a certain library as a FreeBSD port which would allow to use the >> dependencies coming with the FreeBSD ports tree instead of manually >> compiled ones (we did that with DSPAM development snapshots in the >> past). > > That would be really cool! >
My attempt to provide an overview what works on FreeBSD (8.2) and what not: * autoconf, automake, libtool, doxygen, gcc can be installed from the FreeBSD ports collection * at the time there's only Apache HTTPD 2.2 available in the FreeBSD ports collection. I started creating an additional Apache HTTPD 2.3 port [0] but did not finish it yet * APR 2 - I sent an problem report [1] including a new port for the most recent APR 2 version * OpenSSL can be used from the FreeBSD base system * pcre-8.12 can be used from the FreeBSD ports collection * expat-2.0.1_1 can be used from the FreeBSD ports collection * memcached-1.4.5 can be installed from the FreeBSD ports collection * libevent-1.4.14b_2 can be installed from the FreeBSD ports collection * libxml2-2.7.8_1 can be installed from the FreeBSD ports collection * curl-7.21.3_2 can be installed from the FreeBSD ports collection (including SSL support) * I am currently in the process of upgrading the existing FreeBSD SpiderMonkey 1.7.x port [2], [3] * tinycdb-0.77 is available from the FreeBSD ports collection * ap20-mod_security-2.5.13 is available from the FreeBSD ports collection (not sure whether this one is too old) * I started to create an Apache Axis2/C port for FreeBSD but hit an issue which may be a bug [4] * I started to create an Apache Qpid port for FreeBSD put hit an issue which may be a bug [5], [6] * ap20-mod_auth_openid-0.5 is available from the FreeBSD ports collection including support for libopkele-2.0.2_1 * liboauth-0.9.4 is available from the FreeBSD ports collection * I think Apache Vysper can be installed relatively easy from the binary distribution and thus I decided to not create a separate FreeBSD port * Didn't create a FreeBSD port for Libstrophe yet cause I don't know how to pull sources directly from Github while building a FreeBSD port * postgresql-client-8.4.8 is available from the FreeBSD ports collection * scribe-2.2_3 is available from the FreeBSD ports collection * thrift-0.4.0,1 is available from the FreeBSD ports collection * I created and submitted a new FreeBSD port for Apache Libcloud using a PR [7] [0] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=284897+0+current/freebsd-ports [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=159658 [2] http://people.apache.org/~dsh/projects/fbsd-ports/spidermonkey185/ [3] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=343488+0+current/freebsd-ports [4] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/axis-c-user/201108.mbox/%3ccac0wh9akzrvc3-qzhg3thmfhnvi20kzerb0zp94hq_x+d_f...@mail.gmail.com%3E [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-2549 [6] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/qpid-dev/201108.mbox/%3CCAC0wh9ZjuK0Ns_2LnAbM=oufhcg2gavsb99+pkpuybrtr6k...@mail.gmail.com%3E [7] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=159703 > > We may be able to do that if people like you start to help out... as I > only have little free evening / weekend / vacation time for this. > I am interested in Apache Tuscany native cause I want to figure out, whether it would be possible to use OSGi like modules (i.e. provided by Apache Celix) for SCA components similar to what I did with Java in a Redbook I wrote last year [8]. Besides that I want to elaborate whether Apache Celix And Apache Tuscany (native) can be used on embedded devices such as router/firewall devices and what the use cases may be and thus my interest in creating all those various FreeBSD ports. [8] http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247911.html?Open Cheers Daniel
