From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 22 20:48:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC9B1065670 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com (mail-ew0-f209.google.com [209.85.219.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DC88FC26 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so118805ewy.36 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:48:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=dmGs55tdJ7C8U6uIbQnq8CDJZN1iDWejM3GO8VcIIMc=; b=Wqtn708Z5ufGxYhz7XvaC7U8eurXyAoPaMrQ0hWwS2gHE4eNpj5g9kCdT7KrrhYsOF FLMhSFqax8NHxbYG1ivOAzMxE5mPwhwCp12CxgR1dfZC6+iiaIIeTrrkrXP0btEo5eBo KnFYAW+LKfNo3/JlZvBGvYFJGpaMozHcoWMbA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=SS1hxfiuj74owy335hRoRLmTWmenAK6r8OGIAB64xMtAHWiFcks9zPFPMYmAyCiWm5 v12KG4ILwlooXTs4v98k8BB0wWa+pSqm03Bho9RbUTnXQSyzPvI+n7aiLLbEo0s5Jcqe MD/LgQJneSgRAHNsbZyYi1T5lNSbh/JNy9Exg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.46.207 with SMTP id r57mr378646web.50.1253652536058; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:48:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0016365eeb15669eed047430905b@google.com> References: <0016365eeb15669eed047430905b@google.com> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:48:55 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: utisoft@googlemail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scilab depends on certain java packages 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: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:48:58 -0000 On 9/22/09, utisoft@googlemail.com wrote: ... > > Thanks for that, I've gone and made four new ports before I got your reply! Well, at that rate you may as well do them all. ;) > Never mind, I suppose I could just submit those and depend on them, I think > they should do well. I'll submit this as scilab5 when it's done, but I'll > look at making some OPTIONS to change some configure args; it is possible > to disable the GUI, as you've discovered. > > Was Scilab 4's GUI not based on Java then? No, it's "official" GUI was tk-based -- not very slick, but easy to change and not resource-hungry. They also distributed a GTK+-2-based GUI. A lot of the effort behind the new version seems to have gone into the Java GUI and graphics -- I hope it was worth the trouble, but I suspect otherwise. b.