[Slackbuilds-users] xclip SlackBuild - homepage not found

[Phillip Warner]

The homepage listed on the xclip SlackBuild appears to be down.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xclip looks like the place to go for now.

--phil


--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Eric Hameleers <eha at sox.homeip.net> wrote:

> From: Eric Hameleers <eha at sox.homeip.net>
> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] pygame slackbuild
> To: "SlackBuilds.org Users List" <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 12:43 AM
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Andrea Maccis wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > (I already sent a mail to the mantainer, but I only
> received "delivery status 
> > notifications (delay)".)
> > I tried to package pygame (with sbopkg), and
> configuration failed (python 
> > config.py) because some dependencies were missing.
> > I tried to re-compile it (by hand) and I got this
> warning message by 
> > config.py:
> >
> > Warning, some of the pygame dependencies were not
> found. Pygame can still
> >
> > compile and install, but games that depend on those
> missing dependencies
> >
> > will not run. Would you like to continue the
> configuration? [Y/n]
> >
> >
> > so I forced configuration without dependecies (numeric
> was missing) and 
> > packaging was successfull.
> > I think it would be better if pygame configuration
> works also without 
> > dependencies, because if a dependency is mandatory,
> compiling will fail so 
> > you can handle this error, and if it is optional maybe
> you don't need it.
> > I think something like this could work
> >
> > python config.py
> >
> > if [ "${?}" -ne "0" ]; then
> >
> > echo
> "##############################################################";
> >
> > echo "Warning, some of the pygame dependencies
> were not found. ";
> >
> > echo "Pygame can still compile and install, but
> games that depend on";
> >
> > echo "those missing dependencies will not
> run.";
> >
> > echo
> "##############################################################";
> >
> > echo "Y" | python config.py
> >
> > fi
> >
> > Anyway, this is only a suggestion, I don't know if
> it is really a good choice 
> > :-)
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Andrea Maccis
> 
> Actually, this is exactly what I do in my own
> pygame.SlackBuild ...:
> 
> # smpeg and numeric will probably be missing (they are
> optionals),
> # and config.py complains about those so we silence it
> using the echo:
> echo "" | python config.py
> 
> So yes, good idea :-)
> If you are unable to get response from the current
> maintainer, even after 
> this publicly stated question, feel free to contact us and
> take over 
> maintainership if you want to.
> 
> Cheers, Eric
> 
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