[oi-dev] Hipster News 2015W31: First issue !

[Nikola M]

On 07/28/15 01:01 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> Hello,
> this message is the first instance of the Hipster News Bi-weekly.
>
> Every two weeks, we will try to give a comprehensive overview of the 
> recent progress:

Isn't newsletter suppose to be also sent on separate mailing list, too?

It could be ok at first, for people that are already subscribed to 
existing lists
to be automatically subscribed to the new newsletter lis
, so that feedback could be on it's own mailing list.

I also have thing about list name.
It is Openindiana Hipster. unless someone thinks separating from 
Openindiana?

About current issue:
-Where is OI Hipster encumbered repository located? (how to add and 
install it to current installs?)
Encumbered repository clearly needs to be hosted separately from Main OI 
repository,
to be able to distribute Oi within United States. It is US roblem they 
have retarded copyright laws,
but it is obviously needed to be able to mirror and use OI withing U.S.
And that can be only done with encumbered packages kept in separate repo 
and hosted outside U.S.

Shouldn't 'Heads-up' be on top? :)

About sound, my volume setting stopped working recently (about month 
ago) in Hipster. I need to start sound preferences to set it up. Also to 
get full volume, I also need to set up "Built in speaker" to the higer 
level after every restart, but that is an ald issue.

Isn't changing illumos.sh to reflect Perl update,
could be addressed with automatic patching of copy of upstream illumos 
source code before building it?
Does OI Hipster or OI /dev have separate list of patches to apply to 
illumos, prior shipping?


In other terms, it is great what you do Aurélien,
it is valuable source of information, it would improve over time, keep 
it up! :)


>
> - developments,
> - new and updated packages,
> - current known issues,
> - works-in-progress and future goals.
>
> This will hopefully allow you to get better understanding of the 
> current activity and give you the opportunity to provide insights and 
> feedback.
> We will also post these news to a blog entry (yet to be defined).
>
> There has been a lot of activity in the past weeks in oi-userland [1], 
> summarized below: most notable being the encumbered repository.
>
>
>
> 1. Hipster encumbered repository
>
> The encumbered repository for Hipster [2] was created to provide 
> multimedia software which used to be part of sfe-encumbered.
> As a first step ffmpeg 2.7.2 and dependencies were added.
>
> You can find a list of components which ought to be added in the 
> coming weeks, on the Wiki page [3].
>
> Contributing new components is as easy as:
>
> - forking + cloning the oi-userland repository,
> - copying one subdirectory of components/encumbered to get started,
> - modify the Makefile and add patches if necessary such that ‘gmake 
> install’ succeeds,
> - generating a manifest with ‘gmake sample-manifest’ and modifying it 
> if necessary,
> - creating a pull-request.
>
>
>
> 2. Summary of oi-userland activity
>
> Additions:
>
> - encumbered: ffmpeg 2.7.2 + dependent libraries
> - openal 1.16.0
> - bullet 2.83
> - inkscape 0.48.5
>
> Updates:
>
> - Apache 2.4.16
> - Lighttpd 1.4.36
> - Perl 5.22 (in progress)
> - PHP 5.5.27, 5.4.43
> - freetype 2.5.5
> - libdrm to 2.4.62
> - nodejs 0.12.7
> - several X11 components and libraries, in sync with x-s12-clone
> - Boost 1.58 with MPI support
> - Compiz Fusion 8.10
>
> Deprecations:
>
> - Apache 1.3
> - MySQL 5.1
> - Perl 5.10 (see Heads-up below !)
>
> Current goals:
>
> - add GTK3: requires atk, gobject-introspection update first
> - port of LibreOffice 4.4.x: warm thanks to Apostolos Syroupolos for 
> contributing the librevenge component, any help is appreciated ! [4]
> - update Pulseaudio to 6.0: in progress
> - add more components to hipster-encumbered, priority being VLC and 
> gstreamer bad/ugly codecs
>
>
>
>  3. Heads-up: Perl 5.10 deprecation
>
> Removal of Perl 5.10 means that default illumos.sh will not work any 
> longer and you need to add :
>
>  export PERL_VERSION="5.22";
>  export PERL_PKGVERS="-522"
>
> to illumos.sh  while compiling illumos-gate.
>
>
>
> Thank you for reading us !
>
> [1] https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland
> [2] http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-encumbered/
> [3] http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Multimedia
> [4] http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/LibreOffice
>
>
>
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