On Tue, March 5, 2013 00:39, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 01:18:56PM -0500, Stuart Cassoff wrote:
>> > The port builds and runs fine. Still I would suggest the following
>> changes:
>>
>> As I mentioned in my last message, I get crashes when trying to login to a
>> server.
>> Mind you, I don't know jabber well, so any tips are welcome.
>
> Could you please describe the problem in more details? Any error messages? Any
> output to terminal?
>
>> > ==============================================================================
>> > --- a/net/tkabber/base/pkg/README  Mon Mar 04 18:24:27 2013 +0100
>> > +++ b/net/tkabber/base/pkg/README  Mon Mar 04 19:24:50 2013 +0100
>> > @@ -11,4 +11,3 @@
>> >  * textproc/ispell (spell checking)
>> >  * x11/tkcon (Tk console)
>> >  * x11/tktray (iconify Tkabber)
>> > -* x11/xosd (OSD support)
>>
>> Why not just have these as RUN_DEPENDS?
>> Give the user the maximum experience.
>
> I'm not sure whether forcing optional dependencies is a good idea: any of
> these may happen to be an optional dependency elsewhere, so it may break
> things. I believe I had some problems of the kind with xosd before, and ISpell
> may also get caught up somewhere.
>
> IMO it's generally wise to keep optional things up to users.

I totally agree.

>> Thanks for spotting this.
>> It would be greatly appreciated if existing packages
>> (like KHIM, part of tklib) could be used instead of the bundled ones.
>> I also notice a TclXML in there, maybe that can be excised as well?
>
> I'll look into it later.
>
>> KHIM doesn't need 8.4.
>> Nothing needs 8.4.
>> [package require Tcl 8.4] tends to mean *minumum* 8.4.
>
> I'm not particularly sure why I thought KHIM needed 8.4. Probably I had a
> reason to think so.
>
> --
> Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Dmitrij, I thought you've lost interest in tkabber, but now it seems you're
not. I have no time atm to polish it before submission. Feel free to take
maintainership.
Latest version could be found in openbsd-wip on github.

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