[oi-dev] SunRay current status

[Carsten Grzemba]

Am 09.10.24 12:56 schrieb Marcel Telka  <marcel at telka.sk>: 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 11:27:39AM +0200, Carsten Grzemba via oi-dev wrote:
> > I added to pkg.toc.de:
> > library/motif at 0.5.11-2024.0.0.0
> > 
> > x11/library/libxfont2/32 at 2.0.7-2024.0.0.0 
> 
> My understanding was that we (you) want to maintain OpenIndiana to
> support SunRay as much as possible (see
> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/15150).
> 
> That would mean that we should add the 32 bit support for libxfont2 back
> to OI. I assume it got removed simply because it was not clear it is
> needed. The library/motif case is different. It got obsoleted
> primarily because we had no recipe in OI to build it. More details:
> https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2024-March/026824.html
> 
> So, do you plan to add the 32 bit support for libxfont2 back to OI?
> 
> It would be also great to create the metapackage I proposed here:
> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/15150#issuecomment-1880019898
> To do that we should start by gathering the list of files (libraries,
> binaries, etc.) and packages needed by SRSS. Any volunteer?
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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> 

Hi Marcel, 
I discussed the topic of 32bit support in IO with Andreas and Till earlier.
Drop 32bit support in OI is the right decision. It is more and more difficult to build OSS components in 32bit because developer do not spent any effort in 32bit architecture and it would be more difficult for us to keep the OSS up to date with 32bit support.
That's why I had tried to identify the needed libraries for SunRay and provide these in a seperate repository (http://pkg.toc.de/sunray).

Providing a sunray meta package is a good idea and will generate this in the near future.

Related motif library I did a small attempt to use the OSS motif but this had not work out of the box although    there only one tool needs one or two libraries. Until now I had not time to investigate this further.
-- 
Carsten
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