Date: 22 Jan 2003 15:13:46 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Andy Akins <andy@leonidae.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MrProject port... Message-ID: <1043266426.339.29.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <1043243781.23083.8.camel@andy.tennesseeanytime.org> References: <1043243781.23083.8.camel@andy.tennesseeanytime.org>
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On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 08:56, Andy Akins wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Just a little background...I'm fairly new to FreeBSD (although been with > Linux for several years) and even newer to Gnome. So I guess this is a > newbie question/comment... > > I am interested in using the MrProject program. I've installed the > current port, which is version 0.5.1. However, just today, Mr. Project > 0.8 was released. I'd love to be able to run that version. So would some others. I started a port, but backed off when someone else said they were going to do it. I don't have the email from that someone, but perhaps they can chime in. > > Now I am a big advocate of the open source methodology - if you have a > itch, scratch it. So I am willing to expend some energy to either work > on upgrading this port or assisting anyone who is already working on it. > But here's where my newbie-ness kicks in. Even though I am a programmer > by trade (Java), I have little-or-no experience with FreeBSD, the ports > system (programming for), or coding for Gnome. So I was wondering if > anyone had any advice. Is anyone working on Mr. Project for FreeBSD? If > so, do we have an ETA for an update? And if no one is actively working > on it...can anyone point a good general programmer but Gnome/Ports > newbie to the relevant docs/help to perhaps work on this? Or am I > getting in over my head? If you want to do it yourself, you will first have to create a libmrproject port for the backend. I recommend reading up on the Porter's Handbook as well as the FreeBSD GNOME specific porting instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. You will also want to follow some of the existing examples as well. Joe > > Thanks for any input... -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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