Spark was developed by Openfire developers. The best Jabber client I've seen so far. Contains multiple plugins (like on the fly translation), can use Openfire gateways to MSN, ICQ, GoogleTalk and others. Spark is an Open Source, cross-platform IM client optimized for businesses and organizations. It features built-in support for group chat, telephony integration, and strong security. It also offers a great end-user experience with features like in-line spell checking, group chat room bookmarks, and tabbed conversations. Reproducible: Always Currently tested on x86 and amd64 (included ~ in keywords), but should work on everything. version changelog available: http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/spark/docs/latest/changelog.html
Created attachment 132545 [details] ebuild suggestion
#189853 - request for ebuild
*** Bug 189853 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The file is no longer on that server so please update the ebuild with a good URL, please. What a disappointment.
(In reply to comment #4) > The file is no longer on that server so please update the ebuild with > a good URL, please. What a disappointment. > This is the right website and ebuild is working fine.
same ebuild works for 2.5.8.
Reasons this ebuild will never be added to the tree: 1 - An ebuild for a open source package should not use the pre-compiled version. 2 - A Java based package should not install jar files from other packages, but should depend on the correct external packages. 3 - A Java package installing a JRE is out of the question. Cosmetic issues: 4 - There is no need to dodir somedir; insinto somedir . insinto will create needed directories. 5 - There is a dosym command, under no circumstance should ln -s be used as it works on the live filesystem. 6- There is a doexe and newexe no need to chmod files. And finally: humpback@sam:~$ spark Preparing JRE ... /usr/bin/spark: line 151: bin/unpack200: Permission denied Error unpacking jar files. Aborting. You might need administrative priviledges for this operation.
(In reply to comment #7) this ebuild was done long ago and was very experimental and as you pointed FAR away from perfect. so will you consider adding this package to the tree if I'll make an ebuild which will meet all above requirements?
(In reply to comment #8) > so will you consider adding this package to the tree if I'll make an ebuild > which will meet all above requirements? If all issues were fixed I could consider maintaining this.
Created attachment 178332 [details] ebuild for Spark IM with new start-cript
Created attachment 178334 [details] new start-script for Spark IM full packege here: svn co svn://os-rostov.ru/overlay/net-im/spark
A can emerge this only with fix: inherit eutils java-pkg to inherit eutils java-pkg-2
It seems Ignite abandon spark all together for web based clients. Closing this bug now.
Re. Comment 13 Are you sure it's abandoned? According to http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/ - last version is July 1st, 2011, which is almost one year after the claimed "abandoned"... Can we re-open this, please?
