Many thanks to everyone who has replied and/or otherwise helped with
finding a modern/featureful GUI citation management solution for OpenBSD.
Status quaestionis, April 13, 2023
I. [NEW] print/kbibtex -- WORKING and best current option
Rafael Sadowski, our KDE guru, has most generously made a port of
KBibTeX (https://apps.kde.org/kbibtex/) to help all of us:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports=168128336929728=2
Follow the thread for a few small setup notes and to track the port's
acceptance progress.
II. Docear -- WORKING but incomplete and EOL
https://docear.org/ runs in OpenBSD with a regular Java installation,
but it is both incomplete and EOL. Not recommended.
III. Zotero -- NOT WORKING
a) Requires xul to build, but xul has been dropped from OpenBSD
On 4/5/23 00:31, Robert Alessi wrote:
> Someone here will correct me if I am wrong, but I think that at some
> point Zotero needs xul to be compiled, which has been dropped from
> OpenBSD. This is why I didn't even try to compile it.
b) Works in vmd(8) but only with LibreOffice + Firefox installed inside
same VM
> Well, that said, I found a way to run Zotero from a Devuan VM with
> vmd(8). Once Devuan is installed, running Zotero is as simple as
> this:
>
> ssh -Y 100.64.1.3 zotero
> Then, from within the VM, you can connect back to the host with sshfs
> so that Zotero can see your files on the host.
>
> With this simple method, you can go as far as to run Zotero +
> LibreOffice from the VM.
IV. Jabref -- NOT WORKING
a) Requires OpenJFX (JavaFX) to build, but OpenJFX does not support OpenBSD
For example, see my bug report with JabRef, which I mostly filed to make
the leadership team aware that the move to gradle plugins has the
consequence of leaving almost all OSes behind in hope that they might
redirect some attention to portability:
https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/9745
(Very) old versions of JabRef (3.8.2 and earlier) should still run with
OpenJDK 8 (jdk-1.8.0).
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Deus vos benedicat,
Corey Stephan, Ph.D.
coreystephan.com
