Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:50:23 GMT From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/81998: New port: mail/gmail-notify Notify new mail stored in a gmail account Message-ID: <200506211050.j5LAoNoK030874@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/81998; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> To: David Julien <djulien.bsd@gmail.com> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/81998: New port: mail/gmail-notify Notify new mail stored in a gmail account Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:43:09 +0400 David Julien wrote: > I found this code while searching how to compile a trayicon library > for python. There is an article on this subject at IBM > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-wrap/ > > Their code does not work anymore but I found modified versions. > However URLs which provide these source codes are not usable (html web > pages, forum messages). > > I thought later that I can provide diff files from the original source > code instead of a directory, but size of the directory (30ko) is only > twice the size of diff files (13 ko) so ... We should be sure about license here. > > I can use py-gnome-extras (available since 31 may 2005) which seems to > provide this library. But it requires to install a lot of things for > only a small function ... > > What do you suggests ? We can do a little trick here: BUILD_DEPENDS= ${NONEXISTENT}:${PORTSDIR}x11-toolkits/py-gnome-extras:patch (or extract here) ${CP} ${WRKDIR}/../../../x11-toolkits/py-gnome-extras/work/what_we_want ${WRKSRC} It's hacky, but clean. -- Sem.
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