Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:59:52 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: "Brandon Bernier" <BrandonB@4-Serv.com> Cc: spadger@best.com, ports@FreeBSD.org, jchris@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: tkdesk-1.2_1 Message-ID: <20021031235952.A44C238@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from "Brandon Bernier" <BrandonB@4-Serv.com> of "Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:30:25 EST." <50E024A55407544AB1D3200F20C5959524BC2A@f-serv-exch01.4-serv.hq>
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--==_Exmh_806223280P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Brandon, > Please tell me that you or someone else still maintains this program, I'm the port maintainer, it still builds/works with FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (and should work for -CURRENT also). I was in contact with the current maintainer some time ago, and he was considering putting out another release at some point. > I am yet to find a better lightweight file manger, Hmm, I like the OpenStep/NextStep style stuff as well, because I run WindowMaker. > I cant get it to work > with SuSE 8.1 or Redhat 8.0, You'll probably find that these distros only ship with a recent version of Tcl/TK which would be a problem, as the original TkDesk was written for Tcl/Tk 8.0 (but worked with 8.1, 8.2, IIRC). The FreeBSD port includes a number of patches to TkDesk itself that make it work with more recent versions of Tcl/TK (we build against 8.3.4), as well as itcl, BLT and friends. I did this because TkDesk was the only Tcl/Tk app I ran that wouldn't build against 8.3.4, and I got fed up with dragging around multiple Tcl/Tk versions... However, I can't claim credit for these patches, I found them on the TkDesk mailing list and incorporated them into the port. :-) > however since we are migrating to FreeBSD I > will try it again and I can only hope. Thanks for such a great > program!!! I like it, but I think the bulk of your thanks should be due to the people who did the bulk of the work, which would be Christian Bolik, the original author, and the current maintainer, J. Chris Coppick. The port could benefit from some more FreeBSD-isms in the menus, rather than the Linux-specific stuff there, so feel free to submit patches/improvements to improve the port for everyone. Regards, AS --==_Exmh_806223280P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE9wcP4PHh895bDXeQRAg9KAKCnY3amJPJH/GstRWDZk32igIVTwACgznud KmE2mqeA7F1S3ArfF1I7XFc= =REyJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_806223280P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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