Re: Port request

2010-05-28 Thread James Butler
d a look at what would be required to implement a basic PyGTK-based wpa_supplicant GUI. One annoying thing is that (arguably) the easiest way for an external app to communicate with wpa_supplicant is via dbus, but wpa_supplicant in FreeBSD is built without dbus support; another opt

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-30 Thread James Butler
m with additional tools that > target certain use cases, and PBI seems a good > fit for the desktop case. > > Tim Genuine (possibly stupid) question -in PBI land, what happens if package B is, say, CUPS? Does one need versioned rc.d scripts to start one or the other? Which one gets

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-13 Thread James Butler
to install C5.3 with B4.0 alongside A1.1 and B3.2. I'll try to find the paper I'm recalling after work, until then I'll just have to wave my hands in the air. -James Butler working on a new package system in MidnightBSD for some time. When we weighed this issue, it was

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-11 Thread James Butler
m with additional tools that > target certain use cases, and PBI seems a good > fit for the desktop case. > > Tim Genuine (possibly stupid) question -in PBI land, what happens if package B is, say, CUPS? Does one need versioned rc.d scripts to start one or the other? Which one gets

Fwd: HEADS UP dockapp maintainers

2009-08-19 Thread James Butler
ow managers that I might be able >> to get dockapps to work with if I make this change?  I'd like to >> try it out. > > fvwm2 in one I'm quite sure about. Openbox does natively, and Xfce can with a panel plugin. -James Butler _

Re: FreeBSD Port: python31-3.1_2

2009-07-23 Thread James Butler
2009/7/24 Sahil Tandon : > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Adam Townsend wrote: > >> I'm using the ports online (from the freebsd.org site) to get ports for my >> my computers running FreeBSD (running on dial-up). I found that the Python >> 3.1 source links are all broken. They all contain >> "/ftp/python//P