From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jan 6 20:15:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC8637B417 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:15:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA13801; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:02:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:02:32 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Bernie Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a little problem with ports In-Reply-To: <20020107004438.X24246-100000@BLAST> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message