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From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu
Subject: Re: NetBSD listed by Scilab page
Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG


On 23-Feb-99 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
>> >    Is anyone interested in taking on the task of trying to get more
>> >    program homepages linking to the ftp.netbsd.org packages pages?
>> 
>> I'm doing this whenever I tell people that their program is now a part
>> of the NetBSD Packages Collection.

> I've found others pretty recptive to this, especially since when we send
> NetBSD patches back to the authors, we sometimes help them fix real bugs
> (assuming we do our patches in a other OS friendly way).

OK, since I am one of the few FreeBSD'ers trying to get patches into
GTk+/glib whenever new versions come out I'm obviously biased towards
FreeBSD's architecture since my knowledge ends with NetBSD being one of the
three BSD's. If a Bull Estrella (RISC or CISC machine) is sufficient enough
to install NetBSD on then I might get my own NetBSD box soon enough.

So if one or two developers could be bothered to look more deeply into
GTk+/glib and submit patches as well.

The same would go for automake / autoconf / libtool.

'gards,

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