On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, sid -- wrote:
I'd like to suggest to put in the porter's handbook, bsd licenced
alternatives to commonly ported gnu-based dependencies.
For instance, to suggest the [radio] option of "OPENSSL" when the
program calls on "GNUTLS". It would be great to optionally also have
listed in the handbook, other alternatives to OPENSSL and GNUTLS like
NSS, POLARSSL and WOLFSSL. If anyone is unsure of what I'm refering
to, or the description of the Makefile code, please do a make config
and see the "Makefile" on "/usr/ports/ftp/curl" to see the possible
options.
If the application already supports a choice of sub-applications, it is
nice when the port provides those same options.
Porters generally do not add functionality to an application. devd(8)
is not a drop-in replacement for HAL. It just offers a similar function
that can be used for detecting hot-plugged input devices. Some FreeBSD
developers added code to allow for that use, see
x11-servers/xorg-server/files/patch-config_devd.c. Usually, this type
of work is added upstream, in the application itself. That makes for
much less work in the future. Otherwise, porters have to re-integrate
the changes with each new version of the application.
As far as suggesting adding options, that would be more of a policy
thing for the ports people. It's not something the documentation group
can add to the Porter's Handbook on our own.
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