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Date:      Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:02:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        Bernie <Bernie_X@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a little problem with ports
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10201061958080.13758-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020107004438.X24246-100000@BLAST>

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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Bernie wrote:

> 
> hello,
> 
> does anyone know where can i ask if a certain port is under
> development / done / will not be developed etc?

You might look at freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
or ask there.

Also see freshports.org

 
> the reason for this is that i got a problem with the qt x-win
> gui toolkit.
> 
> The 'qt-designer' (IDE) that comes in the ports want qt
> version qt-2.3.1_1.
> 
> the 'qt-architect' (dialog editor) wants qt version
> qt1-1.45_1.
> 
> These from what i understand is two different versions of the
> same program. Even though, none of them is available anywhere.
> 
> The qt toolkit version is currently 'qt-3...' this is the version
> of the lattest tarball from the qt homepage : http://www.trolltech.com
> which for some reason failed to compile...
> 
> Because qt is one of the best qui toolkits available + IDE and is
> also cross-platform (win98, nt, linux, sol, etc) and i'd realy like
> to use it, can you tell me if i can ask anywhere if a port for qt3
> is under development.
> 
> i'm gonna send my error messages to the qt mailing list anyway, but
> if there is a port soon there is  no point strugling...
> 
> i use freebsd-4.5-PRERELEASE built a week ago (cvsup) so i suppose
> my ports tree is quite recent.

Unless your cvsup included ports-all, it didn't update your ports
tree.  The build itself doesn't do anything to the ports tree, so
you may want to get the lastest ports with the ports-supfile.

	Annelise

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