[SCIM] Skim has been ported to FreeBSD

[LiuCougar]

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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> 
> 
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> 


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