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New Ports This Week (May 20): 4401 looks prime, but just ask 3*3*3*163!

Contributed by merdely on from the when-drinking-beer-and-making-ports-collide dept.

We're trying out a new feature on Undeadly: New Ports This Week. Each week, we'll bring you a list of new ports that have been added to the OpenBSD ports tree. 4401 ports and counting! (If this ends up being a good idea, thank deanna@. If it's a bad idea, blame me.)

These ports were added to the tree in the week of May 20 through May 26:
devel/geotiff, devel/proj, devel/sdl-pango, games/wormux, graphics/fyre, mail/gmime, net/pidgin-icb, net/pidgin-tlen, sysutils/filelight, textproc/ruby-fastercsv, x11/dwm, x11/p5-Gtk2-Ex-FormFactory, x11/pcmanfm, x11/pidgin-guifications, x11/sclock

More detailed information about each port below.

Ports are listed in the order they were committed to the tree:

  • graphics/fyre
    • Fyre is a tool for producing computational artwork based on histograms of iterated chaotic functions. At the moment, it implements the Peter de Jong map in a fixed-function pipeline with an interactive GTK+ frontend and a command line interface for easy and efficient rendering of high-resolution, high quality images.
  • x11/pidgin-guifications
    • Guifications is a Pidgin plugin that displays "toaster" popups in a user-defined corner of the screen, similar to features that have been added to the official MSN Messenger (now called Windows Live Messenger), Yahoo! Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger clients. It's highly configurable, easy to use, and has theme support. It really is the end all, be all, toaster popup plugin for Pidgin!
  • sysutils/filelight
    • Filelight creates an interactive map of concentric segmented-rings that helps visualise disk usage on your computer. It is like a pie-chart, but the segments nest, allowing you to see not only which directories take up all your space, but which directories and files inside those directories are the real culprits.
  • games/wormux
    • Wormux is a free software clone of Worms(R) game. Have the mascots of your favorite free softwares battle in the Wormux arena. Using dynamite, grenades, baseball bat and others bazookas,... exterminate your opponent in a 2D toon style scenery and a funny environment.
  • net/pidgin-icb
  • x11/sclock
    • sclock is a simple digital clock. It displays the time in a small led display resembling your old Casio(tm) wristwatch.
  • devel/sdl-pango
    • sdlpango is a wrapper around the Pango library. It allows you to use TrueType fonts to render internationalized and tagged text in SDL applications.
  • mail/gmime
    • GMime is a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) as defined by several RFCs.
  • net/pidgin-tlen
    • pidgin-tlen is a tlen.pl plugin for Pidgin. tlen.pl is a free Polish instant messaging service.
  • x11/p5-Gtk2-Ex-FormFactory
    • Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory is an object oriented GUI application framework built on top of the Gtk2 Perl module. It allows you rapid development of complex GUI applications with a clean object oriented design and supports you in abstracting all layout issues from your application data and logic. (or, it is a framework which makes building complex GUIs easy, as the commit message says).
  • x11/pcmanfm
    • PCManfm is an extremely fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and a user-friendly interface. Some of its highlights:
      • can be started in one second on normal machine
      • tabbed browsing (similar to Firefox)
      • drag & drop support
      • files can be dragged among tabs
      • load large directories in reasonable time
      • file association support (default application)
      • basic thumbnail support
      • bookmarks support
      • handles non-UTF-8 encoded filenames correctly
      • provide icon view and detailed list view
      • standard compliant (follows freedesktop.org)
  • devel/proj
    • PROJ.4 is a Cartographic Projections library originally written by Gerald Evenden then of the USGS.
  • x11/dwm
    • DWM is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. It is the little brother of wmii.
  • devel/geotiff
    • GeoTIFF represents an effort by over 160 different remote sensing, GIS, cartographic, and surveying related companies and organizations to establish a TIFF based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery.
  • textproc/ruby-fastercsv
    • FasterCSV is intended as a complete replacement to the CSV standard library. It is significantly faster and smaller while still being pure Ruby code. It also strives for a better interface.

Thanks to all porters for their hard work bringing more applications to our favorite OS!

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Comments
  1. By dentarg (dentarg) on http://dentarg.net

    I like this feature. Very good work. Please continue.

  2. By marco (208.0.109.221) on

    4 + 4 + 0 + 1 = 9, divisible by 3. that was easier than (3^3)*163

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (68.100.130.1) on

      > 4 + 4 + 0 + 1 = 9, divisible by 3. that was easier than (3^3)*163

      But harder than

      $ factor 4401
      4401: 3 3 3 163

  3. By -=[rpe]=- (80.108.14.83) on

    I'd like to see this very good idea regularly. keep on.

  4. By Landry Breuil (gaston) gaston@gcu.info on http://gruiik.info

    Why not, this is a good complement to http://ports.openbsd.nu/rss/all, for those who use RSS :).

    On my request, the guy running http://freshbsd.org has kindly added ports-changes@ to his website, you can follow commits in ports here (http://freshbsd.org/?project=openbsd&module=ports) if you're not subscribed.

    Comments
    1. By Motley Fool (MotleyFool) on

      > Why not, this is a good complement to http://ports.openbsd.nu/rss/all, for those who use RSS :).

      I was going to mention the RSS feed from openbsd.nu but you beat me to it. I use it with the RSS ticker on Firefox to track port updates.

      But I like the idea of undeadly doing this too.

      Comments
      1. By selm (217.95.240.29) selmagmx.li on

        Actually, this works better for me right now, because only new ports are listed, and on one convenient overview page with a short description. I have been waiting for ages for this. Thank you!

        Comments
        1. By Anonymous Coward (213.100.193.89) on

          > Actually, this works better for me right now, because only new ports are listed, and on one convenient overview page with a short description. I have been waiting for ages for this. Thank you!


          http://ports.openbsd.nu/rss/onlyNew

  5. By tobiasu (85.216.72.84) on

    Nice overview, please keep it up :)

    Tobias

  6. By Anonymous Coward (83.5.250.38) on

    very cool & useful. thanks!

  7. By Anonymous Coward (66.56.44.197) on

    good idea!!! I enjoyed looking through the list on this lazy Sunday afternoon :-)

  8. By Dean (63.227.125.27) on

    It would be nice to have something that summarizes what is available in ports. Something along:

    If you want to use OpenBSD for graphing traffic on your network you can use the far and away favorite - MRTG, which installs easily, doesn't need many or any dependant packages, and so on. If you want to try some others, look at A, B, C.

    For blogging the one that works easiest is (what works the easiest). And so forth.

    I suppose, if I wanted something like that, I should scratch my own itch and start one.

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (68.100.130.1) on

      > I suppose, if I wanted something like that, I should scratch my own itch and start one.

      Then why post here? Go do it :)

    2. By Renaud Allard (renaud) on

      > It would be nice to have something that summarizes what is available in ports. Something along:
      >
      > If you want to use OpenBSD for graphing traffic on your network you can use the far and away favorite - MRTG, which installs easily, doesn't need many or any dependant packages, and so on. If you want to try some others, look at A, B, C.
      >
      > For blogging the one that works easiest is (what works the easiest). And so forth.
      >
      > I suppose, if I wanted something like that, I should scratch my own itch and start one.

      Something like:
      cd /usr/ports && cat */*/pkg/DESCR | less
      Then search for keywords. :)

      Comments
      1. By Anonymous Coward (63.227.125.27) on


        >
        > Something like:
        > cd /usr/ports && cat */*/pkg/DESCR | less
        > Then search for keywords. :)

        Of course, that is the standard way, thanks for pointing that out.

        Not really, pick something you know nothing about, say graphing programs, and try it. Now which one is easiest to set up, has the best graphs, easiest to use with MySQL, imports data, prints, etc. Is gnuplot the best, or is there something else? Something like a "Field Guide for Graphing" with experienced insight into what has worked for many others. The fear I have is spending time on one port, only to find that oen reaches a dead end after a while.

  9. By Anonymous Coward (203.97.97.11) on

    This is a great idea! +1 from me...

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