>Hi all. > >monotone is long since not available anymore on FreeBSD and on Debian, >I've been using locally compiled versions (which I have been seldom >reported in this group) for a while now and I wonder… would it make >sense to make a 1.2 release easier to use with modern >compiler/dependencies for anyone? > >I'm not up to the task of full maintainership (for lack of time I can >dedicate to the project), but doing a rare release once in a while to >keep stuff from rotting and at least compile I could probably do. > >Any interest here?
Nixpkgs has a Monotone binary based on your Botan2 version (that I mirrored to GitHub for easier use in Nixpkgs), with 4 patches: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/monotone-1.1-adapt-to-botan2.patch — a fix for a bug reported by another Nixpkgs user https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/monotone-1.1-Adapt-to-changes-in-pcre-8.42.patch — PCRE 8.42 compatibility fix by Peter Pisař https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/monotone-1.1-gcc-14.patch — gcc 14 compatibility fix by Sergei Trofimovich revert of https://github.com/7c6f434c/monotone-mirror/commit/5f01a3a9326a8dbdae7fc911b208b7c319e5f456.patch — revert of a Clang compatibility hack now that we use a much fresher Clang I will happily and gratefully update to official-1.2 (presumably based on your Botan2 work) in Nixpkgs! (Dropping some of the above patches in the process as feasible) (Shameless plug, I have Monotone installed on fully Nixpkgs based systems, but also via Nix-on-Debian on some other systems) — 7c6f434c (Michael Raskin), as Nixpkgs committer and Monotone package maintainer in Nixpkgs >Would it make sense for a real "release"? >Would we have any objections? > >Also: I guess the user-base is small enough that mostly everybody is >capable of building their own binary by themselves anyways, but it would >be nice to have "easier" binaries in repos anyways. Or at the very >least, I'd like to do that in FreeBSD (and Arch AUR). >(I'm not so sure about Debian, me not being a user myself) > >(The changelog would in be very clear that it is a purely maintenance >release and not to expect new features or big changes anytime soon.) > >cheers, >Lapo > >
