I'm working on setting up an opensolaris.org project that will create community packages for nevada.
See the discussion here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/thread.html#25475 Laca On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 02:01 +0200, Andras Barna wrote: > Well, what's your opinion about "community packages" would be awesome > to put there pkgs which not fit in JDS or in Nevada, like inkscape, > mplayer, xchat, etc. Yes i know that are on blastwave, but they are > really outdated. Opinions ? > > bandy > > On 3/15/07, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote: > Hey, > > A couple of opensolaris people have asked when Inkscape is > going to hit JDS. For > those who don't know, Inkscape is a vector graphics > illustrator, and a regular > tool for most artists in the open source world these days. > > However, with it comes some potential issues. > > o It depends on C++ bindings to GTK+. > > The bindings are in pretty good shape. The > maintainer > is pretty keen to maintain them, and responsible > enough > to try and maintain ABI. > > o It doesn't build with Sun Studio > > This is likely to be the blocker. According to > comments, > there are some gcc specific bits that we'd have to > try > and move over. I *think* Brian has done some work > getting > the compiler folks tuned into this. Any update? > > The other dependencies are less of a problem AFAICS. I > personally think it would > be pretty awesome to have an SVG editor in the desktop > (especially compared to > some of the other things we've been putting into the desktop > consolidation). Any > thoughts on this? > > > Glynn > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
