[Slackbuilds-users] Some thoughts about WinFF: source vs. binary

[Ryan P.C. McQuen]

On 4/16/15, Niki Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:
> Le 17/04/2015 00:36, Niki Kovacs a écrit :
>> Currently, WinFF 1.5.3 is running on my main workhorse PC. I've written
>> a SlackBuild from scratch, to build it from source, which is relatively
>> easy, the more so since fpc, fpc-source and lazarus (build dependencies)
>> are all on SBo.
>
> I've forgotten to insert the link, so here it is:
>
> http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/extras-14.1-source/winff/
>

It appears that Giovanne Castro (the winff maintainer) has not been
active for over 3 years:
http://slackbuilds.org/cgit/slackbuilds/log/?qt=author&q=castro

Still, out of courtesy to the community you should try to contact him.

Also, why not build version 1.5.4?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slackbuildsdirectlinks/files/winff/winff-1.5.4.tar.xz

Works with basically no changes to your scripts.


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