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Bug 245238

Summary: x11-terms/mrxvt live ebuild for UTF-8 branch
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Gautam Iyer <gi1242>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) <nelchael>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://materm.sourceforge.net
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: Live ebuild for the UTF8 branch of mrxvt

Description Gautam Iyer 2008-11-02 08:15:01 UTC
Mrxvt is now working on releasing a UTF8 version. The current UTF-8 branch is alpha, and under heavy development, thus no package will be released for some time. I attach a live ebuild for the UTF8 branch, which can gracefully co-exist with the (stable) 0.5.4 branch.

I know that you don't usually include live ebuilds into the regular portage tree. I'm sending this anyway so that anyone wanting to test the UTF8 branch will find a ready to use ebuild. Also there's an off chance this might qualify as an exception, and you'll add it to the regular tree...

:)

GI
Comment 1 Gautam Iyer 2008-11-02 08:15:54 UTC
Created attachment 170507 [details]
Live ebuild for the UTF8 branch of mrxvt
Comment 2 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-08 22:53:42 UTC
If it's direct mrxvt successor (will become main mrxvt at one point and all changes from main branch are merged into this one) then I don't see a reason for separate package and would opt for mrxvt-9999.ebuild. Opinion?
Comment 3 Gautam Iyer 2009-01-09 03:08:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> If it's direct mrxvt successor (will become main mrxvt at one point and all
> changes from main branch are merged into this one) then I don't see a reason
> for separate package and would opt for mrxvt-9999.ebuild. Opinion?

Yes, it should eventually become mrxvt once it's stable. But it's quite far away from that now, and no release exists yet. An mrxvt-9999 ebuild might just confuse users -- If they think they're just getting the bleeding edge SVN mrxvt, they're wrong. It's a highly alpha utf8 branch.

I wrote the ebuild so it can coexist with the regular mrxvt (so users can test easily, and use the stable version one if they don't need utf8).

GI
Comment 4 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-07-30 17:20:17 UTC
No recent changes in SVN repo (http://materm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/materm/) for over a year. I'm closing this bug.