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New Ports of the Week #4 (January 26)

Contributed by merdely on from the icanhaznewportz dept.

While not necessarily a new port, a lot of work was done (by espie@) with KDE4 this week.

There are 6 new ports for the week of January 19 to January 26:
editors/tea, misc/p5-Acme-LOLCAT, multimedia/gstreamer-0.10/py-gstreamer, multimedia/oggconvert, print/pdfjam, textproc/p5-Text-MultiMarkdown

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

  • multimedia/gstreamer-0.10/py-gstreamer
    • gst-python provides a convenient wrapper for the GStreamer library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting.
  • multimedia/oggconvert
    • OggConvert is a small Gnome utility which uses GStreamer to convert (almost) any media file to the patent-free Ogg Vorbis, Theora and Dirac formats.
  • editors/tea
    • TEA is a powerful and simple-in-use GTK-based text editor with syntax highlighting. TEA can also open Openoffice.org Writer and Microsoft Word files.
  • textproc/p5-Text-MultiMarkdown
    • Text::MultiMarkdown is a text-to-HTML filter; it translates an easy-to-read / easy-to-write structured text format into HTML. Markdown's text format is most similar to that of plain text email, and supports features such as headers, emphasis, code blocks, blockquotes, and links.
  • misc/p5-Acme-LOLCAT
  • print/pdfjam
    • PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts which provide a simple interface to some of the functionality of the excellent pdfpages package for pdfLaTeX. At present the utilities available are:
      • pdfnup: which allows PDF files to be "n-upped" in roughly the way that psnup does for PostScript files.
      • pdfjoin: which concatenates the pages of multiple PDF files together into a single file.
      • pdf90: which rotates the pages of one or more PDF files through 90 degrees (anti-clockwise).

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  1. By Marc Espie (213.41.185.88) espie@openbsd.org on

    Just to make things clear: the current KDE4 work is mostly `keeping up with the Jones'.

    KDE4 is more of a technology preview than a usable beast. The subdirectory ports/x11/kde4 holds most of the pieces. It's not yet linked to the normal build. So far, it builds. Running it shows issues, some of them are getting fixed. This is an ongoing project, it didn't start overnight. I'd say porting kde4 to OpenBSD started back when I ported cmake and qt4...

    Most of these issues are the concern of kde.org, not the OpenBSD project. There was already a tremendous improvement since the beta versions.

    I expect that kde4 will be usable within six months, but not quite now. What exists looks impressive, and it even feels faster than kde3, for the most part.

    But a lot of things don't even exist yet. Heck, the kde 4.0.0 release does not even include kdepim.

    At some point in the future, people will start switching from kde3 to kde4. And we'll be right there when it happens ;-)

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (131.177.204.78) on

      > Just to make things clear: the current KDE4 work is mostly `keeping up with the Jones'.
      >
      > KDE4 is more of a technology preview than a usable beast. The subdirectory ports/x11/kde4 holds most of the pieces. It's not yet linked to the normal build. So far, it builds. Running it shows issues, some of them are getting fixed. This is an ongoing project, it didn't start overnight. I'd say porting kde4 to OpenBSD started back when I ported cmake and qt4...
      >
      > Most of these issues are the concern of kde.org, not the OpenBSD project. There was already a tremendous improvement since the beta versions.
      >
      > I expect that kde4 will be usable within six months, but not quite now. What exists looks impressive, and it even feels faster than kde3, for the most part.
      >
      > But a lot of things don't even exist yet. Heck, the kde 4.0.0 release does not even include kdepim.
      >
      > At some point in the future, people will start switching from kde3 to kde4. And we'll be right there when it happens ;-)



      It's good to hear some status on the KDE4 porting. I've kept my eye on it since the first betas but I think I'll keep my Fluxbox still on my laptop until the KDE stabilizes a bit.

      Great work as always.

  2. By Anonymous Coward (70.173.172.228) on

    WUT POINTLESZ MODULE ACME::LOLCAT AR!

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