[markh]

Hello jwat,

my apologies for not replying sooner. Summer (too hot in my computer room) and then work got in the way of trying to do anything with my Sgi machines.
I did the nekoports scripts, because I wanted to get something running without getting too many dependencies that I needed to get running first. This is also why the perl script works with the perl shipped with IRIX as that was one less dependency.

I agree with you on the maintaining of the dependency lists. That is something I have been delaying as much as possible as that will complicate everything.
I am following you FreeBSD Ports port with interest and I hope you succeed in getting it running.

The reason I do the inst packages is that this is simple for regular users to install. I think not everyone has the MipsPro compilers installed or wants to compile everything all the time. Compiling git on my Indigo2 takes quite a while and for open source software that is not a big piece of software.