[nycbug-talk] Sahana software

George Rosamond george at ceetonetechnology.com
Thu Dec 18 20:40:21 EST 2008


Steven Kreuzer wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2008, at 11:11 AM, George Rosamond wrote:
> 
>> Anyone on this list heard of Sahana (.lk)?
>>
>> It's a Sri Lankan-originated disaster recovery coordination software
>> prompted by the 2005 tsunami.  PHP/MySQL. . . LGPL-licensed.
>>
>> Met some of the developers last week. . .
>>
>> Was removed a while back from FBSD ports. . .
>>
> 
> Looks like it was removed from the ports because it has conflicting  
> dependancies,
> requiring modules that either used php4 and php5.

Yeah. . . caught that.

> 
> Since the maintainer never bothered to correct the port it was marked  
> for deletion.
> 
> If someone was interested in fixing the issues, it can be added back  
> into the ports
> tree.
>

Hans and I attempted to install. . . a bit of a mess right now.

Maybe we'll see how it installs on a Linux.

We launched a mailing list about the app. . . since it's larger role is 
important, and it's certainly worth resurrecting a BSD port.

http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/sahana

George



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