[haiku-development] Re: How to donate some code?
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:06:32 +0100
On 21/11/2012 17:45, pulkomandy wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:47:31PM -0600, Dane Scott - TuneTracker Systems
> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> TuneTracker Systems has developed a little preflet that allows Haiku users
>> to set up FTP on their system by setting a username and password in a GUI.
>> If you would like it for the Haiku installation, or as an
>> installoptionalpackage add-in item, just let us know. I can supply the
>> source, the binary, whatever's useful, we're just donating it. No worries
>> if you don't want/need it, just let me know how to provide it if it's of any
>> value to "the cause."
>
> Hi,
> I think this is a rather nice idea, however I'm not sure if it should be
> included in Haiku. An optional package would be nice. To do that we need
> you to release the sourcecode somewhere (osdrawer, sourceforge, or just
> a zip-file on your web server). Then we will be able to write a bep-file
> and build an optional package for Haiku from it.
>
> Thebep file is used with haikuporter to download and automatically
> compile the source in a way that can be reproduced. Haikuporter also
> knows how to generate an optional package from it automatically.
>
Well it could also later be integrated into the network preferences...
though ftp shouldn't be really encouraged, it's not the safest file
transfer method...
François.
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