1:18 PM - mports status
We're getting the mports tree ready for 0.2-RELEASE. On the last magus run, we had 28 failures and 30 untested ports.
http://www.midnightbsd.org/magus/runs/83
These results are promising. Due to the nature of this release, we need a larger number of packages built.
The idea goal would be to get KDE, Gnome, and GNUstep related ports in shape for the release. We'd like to have packages for all three environments. Most people tell me they would like us to focus on either GNUstep or Gnome. KDE comes into play because it was easier to get working, and at this point we're depending on Firefox for Gnome which we can't ship in package form. (ported versions of firefox can't use the name or artwork unless approved by Mozilla Corporation) I'm going to try to get some unbranded variant of a mozilla browser available for package building if possible. It takes a long time to get a port working due to build times and complexity. Firefox 3 is out of the question right now. It requires new versions of many ports that would be disruptive this close to a release.
I'd like some feedback from users about their preferred environment. When I started this project, I wanted to focus on GNUstep. I'd like to know that's what people want. If so, we need to overhaul the GNUstep ports and get some patches upstreamed. I personally feel that KDE is well covered by PC-BSD and DesktopBSD folks.
If we get more port maintainers, it might be possible to keep all of them and allow choice during install and/or different ISOs.
After the release, ctriv@ is going to do some disruptive changes to the structure in mports/Mk