Re: New Port: Althea, please test! (Was Re: Things worth a look)

[Flinn Mueller <flinn@activeintra.net>]

Gotcha, I've been looking for some good dirt on this issue.  I wasn't totally 
sure what I could do, as the makefile that came with the dist is a little 
different then most.  I hadn't really intended to leave the 'static' 
directory like that, just a temporary solution.

thanks,
flinn

Also to answer everyone's questions about the Option/Add Server:
http://althea.sourceforge.net#configfileformat

---snip---
The "options" menu item, aka GUI configuration, is a tool that will edit your 
.althearc file. Here is a typical session of the configuration window. There 
are buttons to "add", "edit", and "delete" servers. As of 0.4.x, this server 
configuration screen is the only one that has any effect. 
---snip---

see the link, and it will explain how to create your config file.

good luck,
flinn

On Monday 21 May 2001 09:51, Christian Edward Gruber wrote:
> Also please note, that the ${WRKDIST}/Makefile uses DESTDIR as if it were
> the BINDIR.  You might want to rename all uses of DESTDIR to BINDIR since
> that's what it means, then make all uses of /usr/local (or as you have
> done, /usr/ports/net/foo/bar/bash/.../usr/local) to ${PREFIX} which is
> automagically set within the bsd.port.mk system, and automatically is
> geared for building FAKE.
>
> You might also want to read the porting docs and look at a few other robust
> ports for ideas, as this is (no perjorative intended) a pretty dirty port.
> Most important would be to clean up the server selection functionality
> people have been talking about.  I also have hit it, and unless we are all
> missing some user requirement here, it makes the software unusable.
>
> Thanks for this though.  Maybe this software won't crash on bad messages as
> frequently does netscape.
>
> regards,
> Christian.