Not a joke but the latest fish is now Slackbuilded for Slackware 15 and current: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/fish/
https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/commit/system/fish?h=15.0&id=bf2e135cd95a09201732889c065410a760f49e6c On 3/26/23, Luna Jernberg <droidbit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Attaching an updated working Slackbuild package :) > > Might need some of you more advance Slackbuilders to mentor me, for > bigger changes however and read the Wiki pages that Dave linked me > (will take care of that when i have more energy having a cold at the > moment, but this one works for me on current and should work on 15.0 i > hope > > On 3/25/23, B. Watson <urch...@slackware.uk> wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, Luna Jernberg wrote: >> >>> Alright, have to learn more about how Slackbuilds work but maybe i >>> will after that, not exactly sure how doinst.sh scripts and all works >>> yet, should think about it, or maybe someone else thats more >>> experienced and have time can take it over? >> >> Actually, I just tried building fish-3.6.1 with the existing >> SlackBuild (with 'export VERSION=3.6.1' in the environment) and it >> builds fine and seems to create a working package. >> >> So if you're considering taking over this build, it should be a >> minimal amount of work for you: you'd just update VERSION and BUILD in >> the script, and VERSION, DOWNLOAD, MD5SUM in the .info file. >> >> After doing that, you'd want to actually install and run the new >> version of fish and make sure it works correctly. I don't use fish, >> so I don't know all of what constitures "correctly"... but it at least >> seems to give me a shell where I can type commands, and "help" brings >> up a browser (which was highly unexpected by me, I thought it'd just >> print some information to the terminal, like bash does). So it passes >> at least 'basic functionality' tests. >> > _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
