Bug 774093 – Kristall – a Geminispace (small internet, like Gopher and Finger) client i.e. browser (new ebuild)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Andreas Thalhammer 2021-03-03 18:13:30 UTC]

Gemini space is a Gopher-like network, commonly refered to as "small internet". It was invented and created by "Solderpunk" in 2019. The underlying protocol is the Gemini protocol, URLs start with gemini://. It is simplistic, text-based and can be positioned between Gopher and HTTP/HTML, trying to incorporate the best of both worlds and with the goal to coexist.

I quickly forged two ebuilds for Kristall, a Qt Gemini "browser" written by MasterQ32 aka Felix "xq" Queißner: https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall

It compiles and installs without errors, Kristall is usable; still, the quality of those ebuilds is "alpha"...

About Gemini space:
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html

Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_space
https://lwn.net/Articles/845446/ – Visiting another world

Other Gemini space clients:
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/clients.html

[Comment 1 Andreas Thalhammer 2021-03-03 18:14:44 UTC]

Created attachment 689232 [details]
net-misc/kristall-9999.ebuild

At the time of this writing this installs Kristall v0.4...

[Comment 2 Andreas Thalhammer 2021-03-03 18:15:45 UTC]

Created attachment 689235 [details]
net-misc/kristall-0.3.ebuild

This grabs version 0.3 from GitHub.

[Comment 3 John Helmert III 2021-03-04 23:52:49 UTC]

You may be interested in the GURU overlay. This is generally where new packages from users are added these days: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GURU

[Comment 4 Anna Vyalkova 2023-11-15 15:48:14 UTC]

Packaged in ::guru