From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 6 19:01:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA03840 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:01:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03816 Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.208]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA26882; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 22:01:00 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA04526; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 22:01:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 22:00:59 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: Joel Ward cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fresco port In-Reply-To: <199604070159.SAA13121@hemi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Joel Ward wrote: > ok, here's my deal: i got Fresco (a package to interface to graphics > from either unix X, Macs, or MS windows 95/NT) nad tried to compile it. > It identified my system as FreeBSD 1.1 (it's really 2.0-RELEASE) and > produced quite a few errors. (it's on www.faslab.com, btw) > > Fresco works fine on other unix variants, including linux, so > im sure its nothing huge that needs to be changed. has someone already > done this? I think you ought to give it a try before you say "it's nothing big". It is something really big, all tied up in lots and lots of Imakefiles, and hidden behind some horrible complicated hacks to make it's own namespace. On top of that, it's a moving target, under development so it's always changing. If you're interested, Interviews has been ported to FreeBSD. Interviews could be said to be Fresco's parent, does a lot of the same things, and comes with some interesting (and working) applications, like a nice class browser, and a graphics program. Look in the ports collection. > > - Joel > ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.