Subject: Re: Making a NetBSD port of Wonka
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 05/16/2002 17:31:39
ep71 <ep71@bcs.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Wonka (not to be confused with wonko) is a clean-room implemenation of
> Java, under a BSD licence, which currently runs on X86 and ARM processors
> under GNU/Linux or eCos. How do I know that? Because I run the project,
> that's how. ;>
>
> I'm one of those people who use Linux at work because that's what the
> company IP dept supports, and BSD (Net & Free) at home. I'd really like
> to see Wonka in the NetBSD ports collection, but I'd appreciate a bit of
> assistance both with de-linuxifying Wonka and with making the package
> itself. Any volunteers?
Take a look at /usr/pkgsrc/Packages.txt and compare other packages and
you'll soon learn how to roll your own packages. I'd be happy to take a
look at the package or help, but note that I'm far from being a
package-wiz myself. ;-)
-Jan