Break Down

April 6th, 2003 | by Sean |

I finally got acie to install patches. There was no telling what was holding it up last time. I bet it has to do with patch order. Damn Solaris and its funky patch (and by extension, package) management system.

While I have package management in my head, I want to make the point that I think that the FreeBSD ports collection offers the best blend of up-to-date super cool packages, with full source build system, the option to get a binary package, and the simplistic (yet easy) tools as in Solaris. Luck has it that you need not patch, just upgrade. Gentoo comes close - but I never got into the guts of ebuild/emerge system. apt comes close to the ports in coolness, but I feel it leaves far too much up to the maintainer and to the Debian project as a whole. You can build from source, it’s just not as easy.

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Kings stomped on the Sixers tonight and finished this roadtrip 5-1. A lot of close wins, but wins none the less. 4 games left, 3 at home.

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WebDAV, iCal, and Apache 2 = super sweet. Does anyone know of a ics/iCal/iCalendar PHP app that will process and do neat web calendar tricks?

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