conditional circular dependency found, curl, poppler, gvolwheel

2015-08-19 Thread Sid --
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re: gentoo's package.provided equivalent?

2016-04-03 Thread Sid --
The FreeBSD Forums will be the place to search and ask for additional help to do that. >> Sometimes i need to build specific version of some library from source, >> not from ports. How can I tell port system about it. There was no problem >> with old pkg_, because I was able just to put dummy

net-im/libpurple grouping protocols in make config

2016-04-01 Thread Sid --
Hi. Can someone adjust this for net-im/libpurple 's Makefile, the maintainers haven't responded yet. 44,46c44,45 < OPTIONS_DEFINE= BONJOUR DBUS GNUTLS NSS SASL GSTREAMER VV IDN PERL TCLTK \ < SAMETIME SILC GG IRC JABBER MSN MYSPACE NOVELL OSCAR QQ \ < SIMPLE

Tendra compiler

2017-02-24 Thread Sid
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this. I realize that the Tendra compiler is depreciated. On FreshPorts, it says the website is no longer, but at least now it's now at http://www.tendra.org/ with a BSD style license. Thank you ___

Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-17 Thread Sid
>> Stefan Esser; Sun Dec 17 13:11:22 UTC 2017 >> Do you propose to just update the code to what 4Front provides? >> This may work for you as individual user, but the 4Front license makes >> it impossible to commit that version to FreeBSD. (That was the reason >> to stay at a reasonably licensed

Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-15 Thread Sid
>> Sid; Fri Dec 15 23:05:47 UTC 2017 >> It's not that FreeBSD is limiting features, it is more that, OSS is a >> cluster of complexities, >> when it is brought to FreeBSD, it is cleaned up, trimmed, and made efficient >> for this OS. > blubee blube

Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-14 Thread Sid
> blubee blubeeme - Tue Dec 5 00:48:05 UTC 2017 > If I can provide OSS audio/midi input and output for the tools that I use, > then I can do all the routing natively with OSS. I glossed over this in my response. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-16 Thread Sid
I've had a few misconceptions. Bluebee Blubeeme said, 4Front has a modern OSS implementation that is under a FreeBSD license. The model of Sound on FreeBSD is, three layers: 1. The API, where programs use libraries (of respective sound architecture) to access the sound server. 2. The sound

Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-14 Thread Sid
> I prefer simplicity over complexity, All ports and packages should be built with audio/sndio and audio/portaudio (not pulseaudio) as default for the front end to the FreeBSD's native OSS backend. > I want the best possible audio for my system. I work with synthesizers and > audio programs a

Re: Canberra

2017-12-18 Thread Sid
devel/pycanberra audio/freedesktop-sound-theme hasn't been tested for most ports that ask for libcanberra, and I haven't tried it on any port yet either. The source for pycanberra may need patches to work with freedesktop-sound-theme. You could include both as options. If they conflict, you'll

Re: Canberra

2017-12-18 Thread Sid
The port audio/freedesktop-sound-theme just has sound files, and no libraries. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Canberra

2017-12-18 Thread Sid
Canberra is an audio application for playing simple sounds like "DING!". For playing sound, I am convinced that graphical dependencies for audio/libcanberra and audio/libcanberra-gtk3 aren't needed: x11-toolkits/gtk30, x11-toolkits/gtk20, accessibility/atk. According to Freshports, both

Re: Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-14 Thread Sid
> blubee blubeeme - Tue Dec 5 00:48:05 UTC 2017 > If I can provide OSS audio/midi input and output for the tools that I use, > then I can do all the routing natively with OSS. A problem with this is FreeBSD's backend sound architecture allows one device input or output at a time. cat

Re: Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-15 Thread Sid
That's good that Jack isn't needed. It appears, as of the last few months or year, OSS is able to play sounds from different programs simultaneously. What about physical input jacks for mic and line in? # cat /dev/sndstat installed devices pcm0: (play/rec) default pcm1: (play/rec)

Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-15 Thread Sid
> Yuri; Fri Dec 15 20:22:24 UTC 2017 > Jack isn't needed in theory, but OSS drivers for many popular sound > devices don't support midi. PCI audio devices generally don't support > midi, only USB ones do. So if you want midi, you have to go with > soft-midi (ex. Jack+fluidsynth). > Jack is a

Re: Canberra

2017-12-20 Thread Sid
nt the wheel. > This is just one OPTIONAL dependency for a piece of software that I want to > port and this software isn't even audio related, it's an ibus plugin. Sid; Wed Dec 20 07:04:08 UTC 2017 >> According to >> http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/#sta

Re: Canberra

2017-12-19 Thread Sid
According to http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/#status updated September 2012 "libcanberra is mostly feature complete. For now however it includes backends only for ALSA, PulseAudio, OSS and GStreamer." "The OSS driver is incomplete: only sound files that are in a format natively

Re: Canberra

2017-12-18 Thread Sid
>Sid; Mon Dec 18 22:09:36 UTC 2017 > Canberra is an audio application for playing simple sounds like "DING!". > For playing sound, I am convinced that graphical dependencies for > audio/libcanberra and audio/libcanberra-gtk3 aren't needed: > x11-toolkits/gtk30, x11-tool

Re: Canberra

2017-12-18 Thread Sid
t a python wrapper for libcanberra Perhaps audio/libcanberra should be a dependency of devel/pycanberra. audio/libcanberra-gtk3 looks like it has options and requests for unnecessary dependencies. > Sid > Canberra is an audio application for playing simple sounds like "DING!". &

re: Vote: making wayland=on default

2017-12-20 Thread Sid
I would rather see smaller window managers work with Wayland first. If gtk2 and gtk3 want to enable it fine. But gtk2 and gtk3 shouldn't be mixed in with Wayland by default, which is what will happen if it is enabled before it gets a foothold with other window managers.

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-26 Thread Sid
> 'someone else said something to the effect of  "If I looked at the code > already, the license is already contaminated"' That makes no sense to me. That advice seems counterproductive. In the source code, I'm sure you saw this, but there are different licenses in the files.   Usually, when

Re: Canberra

2017-12-21 Thread Sid
> Blubee blubeeme > I'll look at the libcanberra OSS backend and see if I get get the changes > upstream then the libcanberra maintainer can update the port. >> Sid >> Sooner or later, a drop in replacement for libcanberra needs to be made for >> all BSD's. It shou

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-24 Thread Sid
If the author doesn't respond, it's best to move on. Either use their GPL, or completely rewrite it, to avoid infringing on their work. It should be in it's own separate files, so it doesn't get absorbed into that other work's more restrictive license, before it is its own work. You'll need to

Re: Canberra

2017-12-24 Thread Sid
> blubee blubeeme; Sun Dec 24 06:31:00 UTC 2017 > If you wrote that makefile that removes all the gtk stuff, you can either > try to get it to Marcus and see if he's > willing to use that. > If you'd like me to work on the OSS audio portion, drop me that Makefile > and I'll look at it in a bit.

Re: Canberra

2017-12-26 Thread Sid
audio and gstreamer can build without gtk3. >> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Sid wrote: >> > blubee blubeeme; Sun Dec 24 06:31:00 UTC 2017 >> >> > If you wrote that makefile that removes all the gtk stuff, you can either >> > try to get it to Marcus and see if

Re: Canberra

2017-12-22 Thread Sid
audio, perhaps via their library files, should go to the OSS API. Other than that, API's are another language to me. Also, there has to be a way (perhaps like from make.conf) to make full substitutions of packages and libraries. As long as the program that calls it doesn't make drastic changes t

Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-22 Thread Sid
OSS soundcard.h for FreeBSD stable and current https://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/11/sys/sys/ https://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/sys/ blubee blubeeme; Mon Dec 11 17:03:10 UTC 2017 > I'm taking a look at soundcard.h in /usr/include/sys/soundcard.h in FreeBSD > vs the soundcard.h in the offical

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-27 Thread Sid
I think we should consider gradually using the Clear BSD license whenever someone decides to make an alternate, where a GPL licensed code was inserted on top of less restrictive licenses. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: OSS Audio

2017-12-21 Thread Sid
blubee blubeeme; Mon Dec 11 17:03:10 UTC 2017 > I'm taking a look at soundcard.h in /usr/include/sys/soundcard.h in FreeBSD > vs the soundcard.h in the offical OSS 4.01 > https://sourceforge.net/p/opensound/git/ci/master/tree/include/soundcard.h > It seems like there's been a lot of changes

Re: Canberra

2017-12-20 Thread Sid
> Blubee blubeeme > I'll work on it but let me get the port in the tree first, then I can refine > it. > Just as i've done with my previous ports. > Sid > a simple program that plays simple sounds like "Ding!" > The problem with libcanberra is around pulse

Re: Vote: making wayland=on default

2017-12-20 Thread Sid
Wayland should not be mixed in with other code like gtk3, gtk2, gnome related programs. This will immediately create bloat. Wayland does remove a lot of unneeded obsolete code that is in Xorg, that is put in there by principle, and not much else. If gtk creeps into Wayland, those benefits will

Electrum connection error

2019-05-13 Thread Sid
Hi, I get the following error when running finance/electrum from the command line, E/i | interface.[this Internet address changes:50004] | Exception in wrapper_func: AttributeError("module 'aiorpcx' has no attribute 'Connector'",) Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: Electrum connection error

2019-05-13 Thread Sid
> Unfortunately the most recent update of devel/py-aiorpcX to 0.18.0 > broke finance/electrum. It's even listed in the requirements: > > $ grep aiorpcx \ > work-py36/Electrum-3.3.5/contrib/requirements/requirements.txt > aiorpcx>=0.17,<0.18 > > A diff between aiorpcx 0.17.0 and 0.18.0 shows

Re: Electrum connection error

2019-05-14 Thread Sid
It works now. Thank you so much. > > Unfortunately the most recent update of devel/py-aiorpcX to 0.18.0 > > broke finance/electrum. It's even listed in the requirements: > > > > $ grep aiorpcx \ > > work-py36/Electrum-3.3.5/contrib/requirements/requirements.txt > > aiorpcx>=0.17,<0.18 > > > >

Suggestion to split games category into games-console, games-engine and games

2019-04-20 Thread Sid
/usr/ports/games is already very large. What about splitting up games in the ports tree into games, games-console and games-engine? This way, games will be categorized by those that can be used without an x-window system, through CLI, ncurses or similar. 2d graphical games don't need to be

Re: Suggestion to split games category into games-console, games-engine and games

2019-04-21 Thread Sid
Hi, You can remove categories by using the REFUSE argument in /etc/portsnap.conf . See the manpage for portsnap.conf. Then obviously, run portsnap. For other ports or package management tools, I don't remember clearly if or how you can do this. Something like: REFUSE x11 irc games cad finance

Re: Suggestion to split games category into games-console, games-engine and games

2019-04-23 Thread Sid
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 at 11:05 PM > Subject: Re: Suggestion to split games category into games-console, > games-engine and games > > Apr 21, 2019: > > Something like: > > REFUSE x11 irc games cad finance > > Thank you! I’ve been asking for this for literally YEARS. Probably since >

www/weblint error message

2019-07-20 Thread Sid
On trying to run www/weblint, I got this error message: Can't use 'defined(%hash)' (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?) at /usr/local/bin/weblint line 846. It's worked on a previous compile. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I need to configure something. Thank you.

Re: www/weblint error message

2019-07-20 Thread Sid
Thanks, Here's the line: ($., 'expected-attribute', $id) unless defined %args; After removing "defined" or "unless defined %args", this is the error message when running weblint: Can't locate newgetopt.pl in @INC (@INC contains:

Re: www/weblint error message

2019-07-20 Thread Sid
l which also hasn't been included in many years. Upstream for it > > has disappeared, and it should really just be removed. > > I removed it. It's too busted to even fix. I'd suggest using > p5-HTML-Lint instead. Thanks for reporting this, Sid. > > # Adam

Re: propose games-text category

2020-09-06 Thread Sid
We need another category, for interpreters, game engines, maybe game servers, game server queries, and other utilities that aren't the whole game, or that require the original game. Perhaps, games-utils. dMagetic requires an original game, as does scummvm for many popular games. The games

propose games-text category

2020-09-06 Thread Sid
Propose to split games category to an additional category for games that can be played on the command line console without a window manager. Perhaps, it can be named games-text, games-terminal or games-cli. It would include curses games, ascii games and basic command line games. These below

www/checkbot needs default setting to home directory

2021-02-09 Thread Sid
When running www/checkbot, it must be run from the home directory, because that's the directory it writes in. This is the error, when running this program from a non-writable directory /usr/local/bin/checkbot: Unable to open checkbot.html.new for writing: It works when from the home or other