Bug 55475

Summary:	dmsn: does it worth it?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) <deathwing00>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Net-im project <net-im>
Status:	VERIFIED LATER
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.dmsn.nl
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-28 15:19:43 UTC

dmsn is an alternative MSN client. It runs on a Java Virtual Machine. Due to the fact that it runs on a virtual machine, there's no reason for compiling, right? Anyway, the bad point is that this program is freeware rather than opensource.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-29 04:12:35 UTC

if you provide a working ebuild we will test it and make it available.

Comment 2 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-29 04:28:17 UTC

Under way!

Comment 3 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-29 05:35:50 UTC

I've run into trouble while creating the ebuild. It runs a graphical installer and there is no source code nor a simple binary...

There's another problem: it doesn't install itself system-wide.

Anyway, I sent an email to the author to ask him about these things. Hope I get a positive reply.

Comment 4 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-08 13:36:05 UTC

Graphical installers are no good to us.  You're best off just installing it yourself then.

Unless there is a way to install manually we won't be able to help you.

Comment 5 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-08 13:36:19 UTC

Sorry didn't mean to resolve.

Comment 6 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-08 13:38:38 UTC

Don't worry :)

I've told to the programmers and they've promissed to give me the binaries, so I'll be able to make a system-wide ebuild!

As soon as I get the binaries, I'll post the ebuilds, ok?

I assign the bug to myself ;)

Comment 7 Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-08 17:08:39 UTC

bugs should be assigned to someone in the gentoo project, if it is assigned to you and you add ebuilds no one will ever see them.

Comment 8 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-08 23:47:18 UTC

Understood.

Comment 9 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-10 14:57:00 UTC

It seems that the program is still too... young. I'll wait some more until it gets more 'mature' and also to see whether the guy finally publishes a ZIP file with the binaries.

I'll come back to this bug after some time.

Comment 10 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-02 06:31:39 UTC

These guys have closed both the binaries and the source. Can't do anything until they get reasonable.