From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 18:45:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7EE16A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:45:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao07.cox.net (lakermmtao07.cox.net [68.230.240.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541C243D60 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:45:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.30.50]) by lakermmtao07.cox.net ESMTP <20050104184514.URWA20686.lakermmtao07.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:45:14 -0500 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j04IjDbf055409; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:45:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:45:08 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050104124508.79b15898@dolphin.local.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.13 (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Bauno Subject: Possibility of adding ports/74637: New port: news/klibido (GUI Usenet binaries downloader) in time for 4.11 release? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:45:17 -0000 [ Cc: to Bauno, author of klibido ] I originally submitted this new port (news/klibido, a Usenet binaries downloader with a very nice GUI and multi-server, multi-connections-per server capability) about a month ago. Recently, I submitted an updated port skeleton to include a recent bug-fix patch from the program's author. As of this time, the most recent port skeleton submitted reflects the latest, up-to-date version of this program. I'm aware that there are other Usenet binaries downloaders already in the ports collection, but I must say that, after having checked them out, none of them are quite as easy, friendly, flexible and *fast* as klibido. I do believe it will eventually become the program of choice in its genre. In addition, the author and I have been communcating regularly, and I've found him to be very friendly and communicative, open to suggestions and quick to respond to bug reports (the program already seems to have developed quite a following, from what I can gather), and he appears to be genuinely interested in developing the program further. I anticipate great things from him in the future! :-) Granted, the program is still in a very early stage of development, and does crash occasionally, but for the most part, it's quite useable, and will generally run for a very long time without any problems. Over the last month, I've used it with great success to grab gigabytes worth of binaries from the newsgroups, and in a fraction of the time it would have taken with *any* other program. I would strongly urge the overseers of the ports collection to take a serious look at this program. Incidentally, the program's author has already made available on his web site (http://klibido.sourceforge.net/) two pre-compiled binary packages for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT which I created from the port, one for the i386 and one for the amd64 architecture (sorry, I run CURRENT on both of my machines, so that's all I can provide; but I'd be happy to assist anyone interested in creating packages for other FreeBSD versions and/or architectures while we're still waiting for the port to be committed). I feel very strongly that klibido will make a very fine and worthwhile addition to the ports collection, and that it truly does fill a certain niche that no other program in the collection does in quite the same way. Bottom line: this sucker is *fast* (what with its multi-server, multi-connection capability), and very easy to use. Just the thing for any new users we may gain from the 4.11 release, as well as for current users looking for a binaries downloader comparable to those available for other platforms. Need I say more? :-) Sincerely (and hopefully!), Conrad J. Sabatier, klibido port maintainer (if it ever gets committed, that is!) :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"