Hello pksrc users and developers!
There is a pkgsrc hackathon scheduled for 3rd-4th of November.
We came up with the name "pkgthon!" :)
You can find more information about the event at http://wiki.netbsd.se/Hackathon7
Please feel free to add more helpful information about the options framework and make Tickets for the hackathon.
If you don`t think you could take any tickets, but you want to help us improving pkgsrc, please come and test our changes, because testing and reporting errors is always welcomed.
Our goals
We will make options.mk files for packages that don`t already use them, and improve support for options if the package uses them, but more options could be added.
Like when a media player package is compiled with mp3 and ogg support without the ability to decide which one you need, we would make it selectable by the options framework.
This will have another benefit: we can turn off failing dependencies during bulk builds, thus increasing the available package`s number. For example if audio/arts fails to build (and it does on some archs), it makes more than 200 packages unbuildable.
When will it be?
Planned date: The weekend 3rd - 4th of November 2007.
You don't have to wait till weekend, feel free to add or take tickets earlier.
Where will it be?
During the hackathon, we will communicate on #netbsd-code at irc.freenode.net.
Please help us spread this information, and join us on the next weekend.
Thank you for your interest,
Adam Hoka, alias Replaced