Contributed by merdely on from the presents? dept.
News: Expat moving to base from xbase will have a signficant impact on building ports.
- There are 8 new ports for October 14 to October 20:
- converters/xmltoman, devel/flatzebra, games/crack-attack, graphics/libexif-gtk, mail/p5-MIME-Base32, net/libgalago, net/pymsn, net/zenirc
Ports are listed in the order they were committed to the tree:
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net/zenirc
- ZenIRC is a full-featured scriptable IRC client for the EMACS text editor. Most features are implemented via module extensions. For example, DCC (Direct Client-to-Client) can be enabled at the user's option.
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converters/xmltoman
- xmltoman and xmlmantohtml are two very simple scripts for converting xml to groff or html.
- net/pymsn
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graphics/libexif-gtk
- libexif-gtk is the library of GTK+ based graphical user interface elements for libexif.
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devel/flatzebra
- flatzebra is generic game engine for 2D double-buffering animation.
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net/libgalago
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Galago
is a desktop presence framework, designed to transmit presence
information between programs. To put it in simpler terms, it takes
information on who is online and their away/idle states from an instant
messenger (such as
pidgin)
or other similar programs and lets other programs (such as Ximian's
Evolution)
to make use of it.
The advantage of such a framework is that it brings your programs closer together. When you receive an e-mail from a friend who is in your buddy list, you'll be able to immediately tell their online status, for example.
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Galago
is a desktop presence framework, designed to transmit presence
information between programs. To put it in simpler terms, it takes
information on who is online and their away/idle states from an instant
messenger (such as
pidgin)
or other similar programs and lets other programs (such as Ximian's
Evolution)
to make use of it.
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mail/p5-MIME-Base32
- MIME::Base32 encodes data similar way like MIME::Base64 does.
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games/crack-attack
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Crack Attack! is
a free OpenGL game based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.
Slowly, your stack of blocks grows from the bottom, and you've got to
make sure it never reaches the top. Because, once it does, you lose!
To eliminate blocks from the stack, line up at least three of one color,
horizontally or vertically.
To add to the excitement, chunks of red garbage will fall from above. It is impossible to eliminate this garbage directly. However, if you eliminate any blocks which are touching the garbage, the garbage will shatter into normal, run-of-the-mill blocks.
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Crack Attack! is
a free OpenGL game based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.
Slowly, your stack of blocks grows from the bottom, and you've got to
make sure it never reaches the top. Because, once it does, you lose!
To eliminate blocks from the stack, line up at least three of one color,
horizontally or vertically.
(Comments are closed)
By Anonymous Coward (66.90.103.37) on
Apologies but I had to ask..
Comments
By Devin Smith (drs) on
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> Apologies but I had to ask..
In the case of WPA, wpa_supplicant was imported to help work on WPA I think. (Work on WPA)
These games could have been ported for the same reason.
Also there is software OpenGL and just because we don't have hardware acceleration doesn't mean that the port is useless.
By Anonymous Coward (130.89.192.169) on
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> Apologies but I had to ask..
Well, hardware acceleration is hard compared to porting just some random stuff. Ports, it seems, is about quantity more than anything else.
By Anonymous Coward (24.22.214.124) on
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> Apologies but I had to ask..
Some people have fast computers, so it doesn't really matter if it's unaccelerated?
By Anonymous Coward (81.83.46.237) on
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> Apologies but I had to ask..
it compiles, ship it! ;)
Comments
By Brad (216.138.195.228) brad at comstyle dot com on
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> > Apologies but I had to ask..
>
> it compiles, ship it! ;)
This isn't NetBSD.
By Anonymous Coward (85.178.88.65) on
Never understood why Updates get delayed...
New Ports are nice. Updated existing Ports are better imho. :)
Comments
By Mattieu Baptiste (mattieu) on http://www.brimbelle.org/
> Never understood why Updates get delayed...
Release date for 4.2 is november 1.
Comments
By Anonymous Coward (85.178.88.65) on
> > Never understood why Updates get delayed...
>
> Release date for 4.2 is november 1.
And?
Your statement is pointless. Bugs don't care for dates.
And the work was already done once (updating "stable") so they just double the work (if they don't forget about Ports... like php or soem other Ports wich do look pretty "lonly" during the last weeks. :) )
Just wanna point out: if it was already fixed then why doubling the work by not tagging it for OpenBSD 4.2? That has nothing todo with Nov. the 1st.
Well propably updating ports is a secret hobby of the developers but I thought they would like to spend more time to different things (like development..) :)
Comments
By Mattieu Baptiste (mattieu) on http://www.brimbelle.org/
> > > Never understood why Updates get delayed...
> >
> > Release date for 4.2 is november 1.
>
> And?
> Your statement is pointless. Bugs don't care for dates.
The current official release is 4.1. If you want updates, run a supported release or current.
Why complaining about something (4.2) that isn't official at the moment ?
> And the work was already done once (updating "stable") so they just double the work (if they don't forget about Ports... like php or soem other Ports wich do look pretty "lonly" during the last weeks. :) )
>
> Just wanna point out: if it was already fixed then why doubling the work by not tagging it for OpenBSD 4.2? That has nothing todo with Nov. the 1st.
Maybe because this is more work than just tagging ?
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> Well propably updating ports is a secret hobby of the developers but I thought they would like to spend more time to different things (like development..) :)
I'm sure they will appreciate your patches for updating 4.2 ;)
Comments
By Anonymous Coward (74.138.128.26) on
He does it *every* *single* release, and is given the same explanation every time. Some people just like to complain.
By Chris (24.76.123.149) on
> Never understood why Updates get delayed...
>
Try writing code instead of Undeadly comments, then you might.
By Marc Espie (193.6.223.125) espie@openbsd.org on
gimme, gimme, gimme. People work on what they want, or they can.
Most OpenGL ports out there ARE useful, if you have good enough hardware, even without hw acceleration.
As updating mozilla and stuff goes, there's probably a good reason it hasn't been updated yet, like tests show there are still issues.
See, you guys don't know everything.
I bet you didn't even realize that the expat move was work. As in, real work.
Comments
By Ian Bowers (204.56.88.139) iggdawg@iggdawg.com on http://www.iggdawg.com
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> gimme, gimme, gimme. People work on what they want, or they can.
> Most OpenGL ports out there ARE useful, if you have good enough hardware, even without hw acceleration.
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> As updating mozilla and stuff goes, there's probably a good reason it hasn't been updated yet, like tests show there are still issues.
>
> See, you guys don't know everything.
>
> I bet you didn't even realize that the expat move was work. As in, real work.
>
The ability to complain without fear of repercussion relieves the poster from having to defend anything they say.
Few people know how much work goes into stability. Massive work on the back end simply for the sake of added stability shows virtually no change on the front end, and people are often completely unaware that anything took place. That is, until something happens like a few months ago where a number of security updates came down the pipeline with lines similar to "this affects all architectures... except openbsd". That's where forethought shows. This is just the first example I can pick out of my head. OpenBSD is a stellar project, even if anonymous asshat^H^H^H^H^H^H cowards could care less.