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New Ports of the Week #31 (July 29)

Contributed by merdely on from the lock-it-up dept.

Possibly in reaction to last week's huge story, we have five new ports this week. This should bring the total unzels count to 4557.

Also this week, Peter Valchev (pvalchev@) announced a ports tree soft lock. "What this means is that we are in release mode, and new ports/updates will now stop except for very important cases. Everything has to be approved by me, naddy or espie." I imagine this will make the POTW stories a little slim for a while.

New Ports for July 29 to August 4:
multimedia/subtitleripper, x11/gmrun, x11/gnustep/gnumail, x11/gnustep/pantomime, x11/xsel

Ports are listed in the order they were committed to the tree:

  • x11/gnustep/pantomime
    • Pantomime provides a set of Objective-C classes that model a mail system. Pantomime can be seen as a JavaMail 1.2 clone written in Objective-C. The C language is only used where performance is critical. Pantomime uses a little bit of ELM code.

      Pantomime provides the following features (and more):
      • a full MIME encoder and decoder
      • a "folder view" to local mailboxes (Berkeley Format), POP3 accounts or IMAP mailboxes
      • a powerful API to work on all aspects of Message objects
      • a local mailer and a SMTP conduit for sending messages
      • APOP and SMTP AUTH support
      • IMAP and POP3 URL Scheme support
      • iconv and Core Foundation support
      • UNIX mbox and maildir support
      • SSL/TLS support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
  • x11/gnustep/gnumail
    • GNUMail is a fully featured mail application. It uses the GNUstep development framework or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc. GNUMail was written from scratch. It uses Pantomime as its mail handling framework.
  • multimedia/subtitleripper
    • If you want to convert DVD subtitles into text format (e.g. subrip format) or VobSub format, DVD Subtitle Ripper could be useful for you. However, it is only one tiny tool that you need in the process of producing srt files. This software depends heavily on transcode for its input and is therefore part of the transcode package (see transcode's contrib directory). So, if you want to convert some subtitles, grap a copy of the lates transcode distribution.

      For srt file production the output of this program should be processed by some OCR software. GOCR is good for this.

      For VobSub output no other tools are required.
  • x11/gmrun
    • Gmrun (Gnome Mishoo's Run) is a simple "run-program" window, something like "xrun" or "gnome-run". However, those other tools don't have some nice and important features: the very useful feature that allows one to use it with keyboard only, and to be fast enough.
  • x11/xsel
    • Xsel is a command-line program for getting and setting the contents of the X selection. Normally this is only accessible by manually highlighting information and pasting it with the middle mouse button.

Along with the recent bump to 4.2-beta and ports soft lock announcements, let's get to testing for release.

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Comments

  1. By Anonymous Coward (24.89.228.211) on

    Are there any major ports remaining that OpenBSD does not have now? Seems to me the efforts of the ports-people have been so completely successful that OpenBSD pretty much has all the software people have been clamouring for in ports already. Other projects may have thousands more ports, but how much of this stuff is actually ever used? I'd be very surprised if even most of the OpenBSD ports tree is actually used.

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    1. By Andrés Delfino (201.213.6.135) adelfino@gmail.com on

      > Are there any major ports remaining that OpenBSD does not have now? Seems to me the efforts of the ports-people have been so completely successful that OpenBSD pretty much has all the software people have been clamouring for in ports already. Other projects may have thousands more ports, but how much of this stuff is actually ever used? I'd be very surprised if even most of the OpenBSD ports tree is actually used.

      I'm thinking in Inkscape, there was a port sent.

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      1. By sthen (85.158.44.149) on

        > I'm thinking in Inkscape, there was a port sent.

        yes, but it uses threaded boehm-gc. See these comments.

    2. By Mattieu Baptiste (mattieu) mattieu@brimbelle.org on http://www.brimbelle.org/

      > Are there any major ports remaining that OpenBSD does not have now?

      I've ported Crack Attack! :D I wait that the tree is unlocked for sending it. People who want to test/comment can download the port here.

      Cheers,
      Mattieu

  2. By pete gilman (24.147.199.104) on http://p3t3.net


    "unzels?" what is that in english?

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (206.248.190.11) on

      > > "unzels?" what is that in english? > 
              ^^^^^
        |. .|  _________________________
        | U | /                         \ 
         \0/ <  OW! RIGHT IN THE UNZELS! |
         _|_  \_________________________/
     \  / | \  /
      \/  |  \/
          |
          | ___
          ^<___>
         / \
        /   \
       /     \
       |     |
       |     |
       |_    |_

  3. By Anonymous Coward (74.115.21.120) on

    "I imagine this will make the POTW stories a little slim for a while."

    Hooray!

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