[Fwd: Re: [SCIM] Skim has been ported to FreeBSD]

[Jie Gao]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [SCIM] Skim has been ported to FreeBSD
Date: 	Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:19:08 -0600
From: 	Jie Gao <gaoj at cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Organization: 	University of Calgary
To: 	LiuCougar <liucougar at gmail.com>
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Dear Cougar,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have already updated the WWW sites in the 
descriptions to the new scim.freedesktop.org (and for skim, pointing to 
its dedicated page). I will add SF.net mirrors to $MASTERSITES for 
downloading the source package (maybe around next update).

Thank you.

Jie

LiuCougar wrote:

>please use this as the master site for skim,
>
>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108454&package_id=118018
>
>thanks ;)
>
>On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:12:20 +0000, LiuCougar <liucougar at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Oops, I misunderstood the meaning of "master" site.
>>
>>I think you may specify the sourceforge site:
>>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108454
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:38:05 +0000, LiuCougar <liucougar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hi Jie,
>>>thanks for you work and your suggestion. I have added this info in the
>>>homepage of skim.
>>>
>>>I think I will use the counterpart of strndup in Qt library: it should
>>>be portable, isn't it?
>>>
>>>Suggestion about the info of skim:
>>>master sites: http://scim.freedesktop.org/Software/ScimKDE is better
>>>than http://freedesktop.org/~cougar/skim/downloads/ (IMO)
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Cougar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:01:51 -0600, Jie Gao <gaoj at cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hi, all
>>>>
>>>>I am the maintainer of scim ports on FreeBSD. Recently I also ported skim to
>>>>FreeBSD and now it has been committed to the ports collection. So a FreeBSD
>>>>5.x user can update his/her ports tree and install textproc/skim port.
>>>>Details can be found at http://www.freshports.org/textproc/skim
>>>>
>>>>I also have a suggestion about skim's code. In
>>>>plugins/scimlauncher/scimlauncher.cpp file there is a call to strndup()
>>>>function. This function, however, is not a standard cstring function. It is
>>>>a GNU-only extension. So it does not exist on systems that do not use GNU
>>>>libc (glibc). May I suggest using the standard string functions? The
>>>>implementation of strndup() through malloc() and memcpy() will be only
>>>>around 10 lines, e.g. the one in
>>>>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/textproc/skim/files/patch-plugins-scimlauncher-scimlauncher.cpp
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the good work! Really cool!
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>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>--
>>>"People's characters are strengthened through struggle against
>>>difficulties; they are weakened by comfort."
>>>- Old Chinese adage
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>--
>>"People's characters are strengthened through struggle against
>>difficulties; they are weakened by comfort."
>>- Old Chinese adage
>>


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GAO, Jie
Artificial Intelligence Research Lab   http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaoj/
Department of Computer Science         E-mail: gaoj at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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