Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:13:14 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Chuck Robey" <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Luis Medinas <lmedinas@gmail.com>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Brasero on FreeBSD Message-ID: <op.t39rwcr89aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <477AA272.3080501@chuckr.org> References: <1199159561.6089.2.camel@fermi> <1199214593.28014.46.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <477AA272.3080501@chuckr.org>
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On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:28:34 -0600, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrot= e: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 03:52 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> As a co-maintainer of Brasero i'm tempted to ask why FreeBSD hasn't >>> brasero 0.7.0 on the ports tree. None of us are using FreeBSD sadly = but >>> we can work together to make it work better for FreeBSD if it isn't >>> working atm. Please bump brasero. >> >> First, this is very encouraging. I love it when maintainers make an >> effort to help port their application to another platform. Thank you= . >> >> Now for the bad news. We have quite a few users that want to use >> brasero on FreeBSD, but we haven't had anyone step up to fix the >> problems. Admittedly, I offered to look into this a while ago, but f= ell >> behind with non-FreeBSD work, and the FreeBSD hal port update. Here'= s >> were we stand with brasero now: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/115240 : This look= s >> like a problem with brasero overriding PATH for a Linux-centric >> environment. mkisofs is found in /usr/local/bin on FreeBSD. >> Admittedly, I have not looked into the brasero code to determine if t= his >> is the case, or if this problem is still relevant in 0.7.0. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/117364 : This is a= bit >> nastier. FreeBSD's cdrecord only supports the legacy bus,target,lun >> notation. Our HAL exports this address via the block.freebsd.cam_pat= h >> property, and I hacked nautilus-cd-burner to support this property on= >> FreeBSD. >> >> If you have suggestions on these problems, I would be happy to get >> brasero up to 0.7.0 and working properly on FreeBSD. > > I didn't know what brasero was, so I wewnt to their website. I found = = > that > the version number for their stable release is 0.5.2, while I see the = = > ports Which website? In the http://www.gnome.org/projects/brasero/ shows that = = 0.7.x is stable release. > is at 0.5.1. Is it normal, so something like gnome utils (that so man= y > use) to follow the most recent version, of to follow the most recent > *stable* version? Note I'm not being fascetious, I really don't know = the Yeah, we normal do that. If we add development version then it would be = = brasero-devel if we are interest to maintain it. Most of time we add in = MC = CVS instead do *-devel unless it really need to be *-devel if it's not f= it = in GNOME release. Cheers, Mezz > answer, but maybe, if one would use the x11/gnome port as a guide, wel= l, > it's running at version 2.20.2, which I think (unless I misread their > website) is their stable release ... but they didn't actually seem to = = > make > any distinction on that site, current versus stable. I still don't kn= ow, > but I think that brasero shouldn't just be automatically be updated to= = > the > current version without deciding that, right? > > Or, should the port have a second one, a brasero-current, added? I kn= ow > that either way, a update is needed, but that needed to be looked at, = = > right? > >> Joe >> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHeqJyz62J6PPcoOkRAvI+AJ4vti44pUrrT0XUlkAX4VeMIWb96gCeOmZV > S0DuBM4q/Ar9Z1cDxnaDF/k=3D > =3DuMoU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- = mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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