Re: Is there a good reason qmail isn't a port?

[Brad <brad@comstyle.com>]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:58:02AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> nemir nemiria wrote:
> >Just curious.   It seems that they have synergistic philosophy and it's 
> >popular and stable.
> 
> See archives, this has been beaten to death, repeatedly.
> Summary:
> 1) Why?  If you can't compile a DJB program yourself, you probably 
> shouldn't be running it.  Compiling his stuff is trivial, much easier 
> than /PROPERLY/ implementing a mail or DNS server.  The guy knows how to 
> write portable programs, and much of his SW was written on OpenBSD.
> 2) at times, ports have seemed to have been against the will of the 
> author, at least how we would wish to do it.  (short version: he puts 
> things in strange places.  We try to keep things in "standard" places 
> (at least, our definition of standard).  DJB doesn't like this).
> 3) See #1. 8)

http://qmail.org/not-open-source.html

// Brad