Op Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:27:51 +0100 schreef Ion-Mihai Tetcu
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:49:34 -0400
Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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