On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:55:15AM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 14/12/2007 à 00:37:48+0000, Tuomo Valkonen a écrit > > On 2007-12-13, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This may just say I'm very very sad to see the ion-3 ports disapear from > > > FreeBSD ports tree because some licence problem.
hi, accidentally, I just set up my first FreeBSD on a 500 MHz pentium III a few days ago (nice system, e.g. the short boot time (booting was necessary quite some times before I got it right...). so I'm really no freebsd expert. but I installed ion3 with pkg_add -r ion-3ds from the 6-stable/Latest branch: Fetching ftp://ftp3.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ion-3ds.tbz... that's an old ion version (end of 2006) and tuomo probably will hate to see that but better than nothing. > > > > The only problem is some people wanting to interpret it the worst > > possible way, although it would be trivial to comply with it. > > Just a few small notices.. Of course, most people don't bother > > to actually read the license before complaining and spreading > > misinformation. > > Just like I said, I don't want blame anyone, maybe you right, maybe you > wrong, maybe FreeBSD ports manager right/wrong, I don't known. > > I'm not a developper (the more complex software I ever write is «hello > world»), I'm not a ports maintener. > > What I just want to say is I'm very regret there are no agreement between > you and FreeBSD ports Team. > > > > > > Now I need to find something don't exist : another wm such good as ion3. > > > > Just compile from source. It's not that difficult. > > > > Of course It's what I'm going to do (try), but the ports collection make all > dependency, and it's very fine technics. > > But the problem for me it's I'm not a programmer, I'm just a sysadmin, and > I think in some year when there lots of modification in all software I'm > not sure I can compile that. > > I'm just look in the old ports collection and there are very few patch in > the ion-3 ports, but maybe in few year they need more. I can only make very > few modifications. > > > If there's demand, I could provide a relocatable binary as well... > > Presently no ZeroInstall feed, though, because I can't build its > > dependencies in Frisbee. But ZI is just a convenient way to install > > a tarball with a relocatable binary. > > I can answer that question, IMHO ion-3 is the best wm I ever seen (in > almost 20 years of unix). But all new users use some KDE/Gnome, this kind > of software let you have 3 finger very big by using the mouse. > > Event I can't using ion-3 because I can build it I just want thanks you for > all this year with you software. > > Regards. > > -- > Albert SHIH > Observatoire de Paris Meudon > SIO batiment 15 > Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26 > Heure local/Local time: > Ven 14 déc 2007 01:54:04 CET
