From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 16 15:08:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBD1106566B; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arjanl@opera.com) Received: from smtp.opera.com (sam.opera.com [213.236.208.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE0B8FC15; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arjanl@opera.com) Received: from imac.local (cm-84.208.116.164.getinternet.no [84.208.116.164]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.opera.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id m2GEvnbf013476 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:57:49 GMT Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:57:48 +0100 To: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" , "Ken Smith" From: "Arjan van Leeuwen" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1205628574.1018.7.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20080316082751.56d25c28@it.buh.tecnik93.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080316082751.56d25c28@it.buh.tecnik93.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.50 (MacIntel) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6256/Sun Mar 16 13:34:18 2008 on smtp.opera.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 version of Opera X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:08:22 -0000 Op Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:27:51 +0100 schreef Ion-Mihai Tetcu : > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:49:34 -0400 > Ken Smith wrote: > >> >> Someone (cough Dan cough) noticed me saying on IRC one of the things I >> missed after shifting my home machine from i386 to amd64 was Opera. He >> pointed me at this: >> >> http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/snapshot-1834/amd64-freebsd/ > > This is the new beta release for 9.5 series and it's the first to > feature amd64 support for both FreeBSD and linux; it also drops support > for FreeBSD 4. It's not even a beta; it's a development snapshot, something we try to release every week (or as often as time permits) on the desktop team blog (http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/). The difference is that snapshots do not receive the QA that 'real' betas get, they're basically just builds coming straight from our development branches. > >> which it turned out was very simple to install (I needed to build >> x11-toolkits/qt33, and just ran the install.sh that was packaged in the >> Opera download). > > Seems they didn't do a static build for i386. s/i386/amd64/, indeed :). We have yet to see what we'll do with the whole static/dynamic build thing; right now we have so many builds (not just FreeBSD, think Linux and Solaris on various architectures as well) that testing all of them takes up a lot of resources in QA, and we'd like to have less builds. For now, we'll only do shared builds for FreeBSD/amd64. >> He suggested I send this to see if someone familiar with the Opera ports >> would be interested in packaging this up into a real port. > > Well, the best idea then it to CC the port maintainer, which I did on > this email ;-) > In this I case I'm sure he knows about it, seeing that he works for > Opera :) Maybe the -devel port we be resurrected ;-) Yeah, I know :). I've been a bit hesitant in the past about resurrecting the -devel port, considering the developmental nature of the snapshots and the fact that the port would need a (simple) update almost every week. But if there's demand, we always welcome more testers :). Having FreeBSD 7 and amd64 builds out there is of course a big plus. If a ports committer would like to offer being on the CC of submitted PRs so that the weekly updates can go through relatively quickly, that would be very nice :). Arjan -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/