Hi Laurie I posted a port of calibre to the list a few weeks ago. I'll take a look at your patches and merge your work into it.
On 2011 Feb 13 (Sun) at 19:47:16 +0000 (+0000), Laurence Tratt wrote: :[I know ports is in lock, but this is an early stages port that will need :quite some work before it's ready for commit. There are probably better :qualified people than I to take this forward, so early posting seems :sensible.] : :Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application - it :can sync and convert various formats to Kindles and their ilk. It can also :connect to various internet news sources and sync them to an ebook device. : :This port is rough and ready - it currently pretends to Calibre that it's :running on FreeBSD to utilise the rudimentary FreeBSD inbuilt support (which :means that there's no nice talk-via-USB support; you can do things manually :by mounting the device yourself in the normal filesystem) and incorporates a :couple of hacky patches from Debian. This is enough to get simple :functionality up and running - I can e-mail files to my Kindle, for example. :Both the port and Calibre itself really need a lot of cleaning up (Calibre :itself is rather tempermental, and can quite easily get its knickers in a :twist; how much of that is a lack of OpenBSD support I haven't yet looked :at), but it does what I need it to. : :The port is at: : : http://tratt.net/laurie/src/obsd/ports/calibre.tar.gz : :It also needs an updated version of py-cssutils (without it, virtually :nothing works), a patch for which is at: : : http://tratt.net/laurie/src/obsd/ports/py-cssutils.patch : : :Laurie :-- :http://tratt.net/laurie/ -- Personal :http://fetegeo.org/ -- Free text geocoding :http://convergepl.org/ -- The Converge programming language : -- Croll's Query: If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
