Re: I'm very sad...

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:55:15AM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
>  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.

hi, 

accidentally, I just set up my first FreeBSD 
on a 500 MHz pentium III a few days ago (nice system, e.g. the short boot time
(booting was necessary quite some times before I got it right...). so I'm really
no freebsd expert. but I installed ion3 with

pkg_add -r ion-3ds

from the 6-stable/Latest branch:

Fetching
ftp://ftp3.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ion-3ds.tbz...

that's an old ion version (end of 2006) and tuomo probably will hate to see that
but better than nothing.


> > 
> > 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.
> 
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