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Bug 94044

Summary: Ebuild request: Proximodo
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Maarten Billemont <lhunath>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: enhancement CC: net-proxy+disabled
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Other   
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/proximodo/
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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Maarten Billemont 2005-05-26 00:45:10 UTC
Proximodo is an open source version of the already existing Windows-only Proximitron. It is a proxy which uses regex lookups in fetched HTTP requests to filter out bogus. You may think, we've already a couple of those in the portage, but seriously; I've tried them all and I think they're crap compared to Proximitron. (Primarily, none of them succeed in removing an Ad-Iframe, which causes the page to go massively ugly, whenever the document inside is being removed, either with a retarded warning *this ad is killed* which is almost just as bad as the Ad itself, or a silly colour which curses with the page layout, which comes close to the first).
I don't understand why none is present as of yet, Proximitron has since it's start been the one and only true Ad-killing sollution, surely many of you have used it. It is still in an Alpha stage, though, but it should work (once you get wxGTK installed and get it to compile.. at which I've failed so far).
Comment 1 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-26 04:11:12 UTC
Ok, but how about an ebuild proposal?

You should try installing the latest testing version of wxGTK. If it fails, try
hacking its flags (especially gtk2 and unicode).
Comment 2 Maarten Billemont 2005-05-26 04:22:49 UTC
Sadly, I'm new to Gentoo, I'm afraid any ebuild produced on my behalf will be a 
disgrace to the Tree.
Ps./ I'm already using wxGTK 2.6.0-r1, it compiles perfectly, but compiling 
Proximodo throws some errors at me alike:
error: conversion from `const char*' to `const wxString' is ambiguous
and
error: invalid conversion from `const wxChar*' to `char'

I've made a bug entry at the Proximodo SourceForge page as I believe this is 
because of a lacking of casting. (I believe wxWidgets have some kind of macro 
Comment 3 Maarten Billemont 2005-05-26 04:22:49 UTC
Sadly, I'm new to Gentoo, I'm afraid any ebuild produced on my behalf will be a 
disgrace to the Tree.
Ps./ I'm already using wxGTK 2.6.0-r1, it compiles perfectly, but compiling 
Proximodo throws some errors at me alike:
error: conversion from `const char*' to `const wxString' is ambiguous
and
error: invalid conversion from `const wxChar*' to `char'

I've made a bug entry at the Proximodo SourceForge page as I believe this is 
because of a lacking of casting. (I believe wxWidgets have some kind of macro à 
la _T() to assist with this, yet I am uncertain/unexperienced in the matter).
Comment 4 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-26 12:12:44 UTC
Tough luck! I don't care about this thing either.

Unless someone steps in with a proposal in the next (lets say) 2 months, this
bug will be closed with LATER resolution.

P.S.: if you think I just copy user ebuilds from bugzilla to portage, think
again! Every ebuild/patch need to pass the probe of my X-ray vision. :)
Comment 5 Maarten Billemont 2005-05-26 12:22:39 UTC
Of which I am very grateful, the portage needs it in order to stay decent. I 
suppose I'll need to find a way to come up with a quality ebuild proposal.
Comment 6 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-17 11:25:36 UTC
time's up!
closing this bug.