Re: [Fink-devel] Gaim -> Pidgin -- searching a new maintainer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 5, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Max Horn wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have maintained the gaim package for many years. But I am not > really using it anymore (having switched first to Proteus and later > to Adium). Now they finally made a new major release, under a new > name: Pidgin (see http://pidgin.im/). IMO it's still a very good app, > and it would be worthwhile to have a new package for it. But as you > guessed from the subject of this mail, I would prefer if somebody > else does this. > > In addition, the depends need to be rechecked (e.g. libao2/audiofile > deps replaced by gstreamer; potential deps on gconf2, cyrus-sasl2, > libhowl, silc-*, doxygen, ...). Also some other things should be > reconsidered (do we still need a relinking patch? Do we still have to > force downgrade -O2 to -O? etc.). I have had a beta of gaim in svn for a while now, i think it was one version behind the last beta release. I updated all the depends and builddeps, and it seemed to build everything from a clean system, someone could use this as a starting point for the new package, I would think that the last beta was similar in structure to the release. - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID: 0xA2ABC070 Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 "Sadly, text alone cannot convey the depths of my sarcasm." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Please sign reply-http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkY849YACgkQ+/mCMqKrwHBymACdG9/CKE6nCnnOn78LmDgtLssE uKUAoLEtXADpKEVygIXWuBwxM1FQrqVJ =l3KB -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
[Fink-devel] Gaim -> Pidgin -- searching a new maintainer
Hi folks, I have maintained the gaim package for many years. But I am not really using it anymore (having switched first to Proteus and later to Adium). Now they finally made a new major release, under a new name: Pidgin (see http://pidgin.im/). IMO it's still a very good app, and it would be worthwhile to have a new package for it. But as you guessed from the subject of this mail, I would prefer if somebody else does this. Packaging piding properly is more work than just replacing "gaim" by "pidgin" everywhere. For one thing, there should be lots of splitoffs: One for pidgin, one for finch (the new console IM client), libpurple (the IM lib behind Pidgin, Finch and Adium), and for each also -shlibs and -dev splitoffs -- maybe more (e.g. there is a mysterious "gnt" / "libgnt" inside it now, with more or less zero docs on it -- maybe it needs to be in a separate splitoff, too. Best to ask the Pidgin developers, e.g. in #pidgin about this). In addition, the depends need to be rechecked (e.g. libao2/audiofile deps replaced by gstreamer; potential deps on gconf2, cyrus-sasl2, libhowl, silc-*, doxygen, ...). Also some other things should be reconsidered (do we still need a relinking patch? Do we still have to force downgrade -O2 to -O? etc.). All in all, this would be some work once, after that maintaining it should hopefully be easy. So, if somebody qualified is interested in taking this over, please contact me. I'll be around to help a bit, too (and modify my gaim package to suggest upgrading to pidgin). Cheers, Max - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
