From: Rob Schmersel <rob.schmersel@bahnhof.se>
Subject: Re: Ferrumc
To: Janne Johansson <icepic.dz@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomy Martin Grinberg <tomy.martin.grinberg@gmail.com>, ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:12:56 +0100

On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:01:00 +0100
Janne Johansson <icepic.dz@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'd like to submit a new port for the Ferrum-language compiler.
> > - Homepage: https://ferrum-language.github.io/Ferrum/
> 
> That website already lists ferrum as existing in OpenBSD ports, but
> that doesn't seem true. Did not find anything on the other BSDs
> either, although that website claims to have ports in net, free, open
> and dragonfly. Also doesn't exist in homebrew for macos.
> 
> Is this a sad AI joke?
> 
> > DISTNAME = ferrumc-v0.3.0-linux-amd64
> 
> Seems like an odd distname?
> 
> > MASTER_SITES =
> > https://github.com/Ferrum-Language/Ferrum/releases/download/v0.3.0/
> > DISTFILES = ferrumc-v0.3.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
> 
> And this should be a source package and not precompiled amd64 linux
> bins, right?
> 
> Even if there was something x86_64 specific about it, the openbsd port
> Makefile should probably have some ONLY_FOR_ARCH so that all the rest
> would not try to build yet another llvm-project which doesn't work
> later on.
> 
> Also the name ferrumc seems to clash with a minecraft implementation
> in rust.
> 
> 
> --
> May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
> 

From github page
(https://github.com/Ferrum-Language/Ferrumc?tab=readme-ov-file):

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