Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:57:48 +0100 From: "Arjan van Leeuwen" <arjanl@opera.com> To: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu@freebsd.org>, "Ken Smith" <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 version of Opera Message-ID: <op.t736ifttt0fgli@imac.local> In-Reply-To: <20080316082751.56d25c28@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <1205628574.1018.7.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20080316082751.56d25c28@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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Op Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:27:51 +0100 schreef Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org>: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:49:34 -0400 > Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote: > >> >> Someone (cough Dan cough) noticed me saying on IRC one of the things I >> missed after shifting my home machine from i386 to amd64 was Opera. He >> pointed me at this: >> >> http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/snapshot-1834/amd64-freebsd/ > > This is the new beta release for 9.5 series and it's the first to > feature amd64 support for both FreeBSD and linux; it also drops support > for FreeBSD 4. It's not even a beta; it's a development snapshot, something we try to release every week (or as often as time permits) on the desktop team blog (http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/). The difference is that snapshots do not receive the QA that 'real' betas get, they're basically just builds coming straight from our development branches. > >> which it turned out was very simple to install (I needed to build >> x11-toolkits/qt33, and just ran the install.sh that was packaged in the >> Opera download). > > Seems they didn't do a static build for i386. s/i386/amd64/, indeed :). We have yet to see what we'll do with the whole static/dynamic build thing; right now we have so many builds (not just FreeBSD, think Linux and Solaris on various architectures as well) that testing all of them takes up a lot of resources in QA, and we'd like to have less builds. For now, we'll only do shared builds for FreeBSD/amd64. >> He suggested I send this to see if someone familiar with the Opera ports >> would be interested in packaging this up into a real port. > > Well, the best idea then it to CC the port maintainer, which I did on > this email ;-) > In this I case I'm sure he knows about it, seeing that he works for > Opera :) Maybe the -devel port we be resurrected ;-) Yeah, I know :). I've been a bit hesitant in the past about resurrecting the -devel port, considering the developmental nature of the snapshots and the fact that the port would need a (simple) update almost every week. But if there's demand, we always welcome more testers :). Having FreeBSD 7 and amd64 builds out there is of course a big plus. If a ports committer would like to offer being on the CC of submitted PRs so that the weekly updates can go through relatively quickly, that would be very nice :). Arjan -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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