Re: I'm very sad...

 Le 14/12/2007 à 00:37:48+0000, Tuomo Valkonen a écrit
> On 2007-12-13, Albert Shih <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This may just say I'm very very sad to see the ion-3 ports disapear from
> > FreeBSD ports tree because some licence problem.
> 
> The only problem is some people wanting to interpret it the worst
> possible way, although it would be trivial to comply with it.
> Just a few small notices.. Of course, most people don't bother
> to actually read the license before complaining and spreading
> misinformation.

Just like I said, I don't want blame anyone, maybe you right, maybe you
wrong, maybe FreeBSD ports manager right/wrong, I don't known. 

I'm not a developper (the more complex software I ever write is «hello
world»), I'm not a ports maintener.

What I just want to say is I'm very regret there are no agreement between
you and FreeBSD ports Team.

> 
> > Now I need to find something don't exist : another wm such good as ion3.
> 
> Just compile from source. It's not that difficult.
> 

Of course It's what I'm going to do (try), but the ports collection make all
dependency, and it's very fine technics. 

But the problem for me it's I'm not a programmer, I'm just a sysadmin, and
I think in some year when there lots of modification in all software I'm
not sure I can compile that. 

I'm just look in the old ports collection and there are very few patch in
the ion-3 ports, but maybe in few year they need more. I can only make very
few modifications.

> If there's demand, I could provide a relocatable binary as well...
> Presently no ZeroInstall feed, though, because I can't build its
> dependencies in Frisbee. But ZI is just a convenient way to install
> a tarball with a relocatable binary.

I can answer that question, IMHO ion-3 is the best wm I ever seen (in
almost 20 years of unix). But all new users use some KDE/Gnome, this kind
of software let you have 3 finger very big by using the mouse.

Event I can't using ion-3 because I can build it I just want thanks you for
all this year with you software.

Regards.

--
Albert SHIH
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