ion windows manager on FreeBSD
Hi all I'm trying to compile http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/download.html on my FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and didn't success I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone have the patch file for the system.mk ? Long time ago ion ports was kick off from the ports system because the will of the developper (please don't troll). I just saw the license just change maybe now it's possible to put again ion in the ports system ? I would like to help for the ports but as you can see I unable to build for myself. Regards -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: Mer 30 sep 2009 12:01:57 CEST
Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD
Le 30/09/2009 à 18:58:43+0200, Albert Shih a écrit Le 30/09/2009 à 17:27:46+0200, Gary Jennejohn a écrit On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:25 +0200 Albert Shih albert.s...@obspm.fr wrote: Le 30/09/2009 __ 18:45:35+0400, Dmitry Marakasov a __crit * Albert Shih (albert.s...@obspm.fr) wrote: I would like to known if anyone can help me make ion work ? Maybe someone have the patch file for the system.mk ? Please try this: http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/ion3.tar It builds file in tinderbox, but I haven't tested how it works yet. I'm happy to see I'm not the only ET (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/) to like this wm ;-) Well I've just try you tarbut it's not working. Not a very useful error message. You right. I just installed it (9-CURRENT AMD64) and it works just fine for me. At least, the basic functionality seems to be there. You right again It's work...I don't known why (I'm not a FreeBSD-ports guru...) if I try to build outside the ports tree, just with the patch file it's don't wokr. But inside de ports tree it's working. and after 3h of using, I think the ports is good. You save «my life» ;-) Thanks again. Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: Mer 30 sep 2009 21:38:11 CEST
Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD
Le 30/09/2009 à 11:19:15-0500, Mark Linimon a écrit On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:05:08PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: I've seen the license change too. I'm working on the port currently. As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the developer threatened us with a lawsuit. This repeats what he has previously done to several other BSDs and several Linux distributions. This is why ports for his software are no longer available for these platforms. Whether the license has changed or not, the fact that the author feels the desire to use lawsuits to achieve his goals makes his software too much of a liability for FreeBSD to redistribute. Well I think you decision is already take so I'm not going argue with you. Just little information : As I understand Tuomo Valkonen as stop the developement of this software. Here is what he say : «I have recently given up on the failure known as Linux, and switched to Windows. As I thus probably won't be working much on Ion3 anymore, and since it seems very stable anyway, the 28-day clause in the license should serve little practical purpose anymore. It has therefore been lifted.» -- http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/news.html Anyway if you don't want that ports I can understand easily why. That make me sad, but thanks to Dmitry I can use ion-3 and because ion-3 not going to evolve I'm going to keep that «pseudo-ports» in some «safe»-place. Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: Mer 30 sep 2009 21:51:13 CEST
