On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:58:51PM +0200, Peter Ljung wrote: > This is my first attempt to make a port for the howl editor > (https://howl.io/). > > I think howl is a *really* good alternative editor which compares well with > e.g. > Sublime Text for my uses. > > Also it doesn't come with a huge baggage like the Electron based editors > Atom and VS Code. > > * The upstream code builds cleanly on OpenBSD since 0.4 release > * A stability issue (I found) on OpenBSD was fixed in last point release 0.5.2 > > I have tried my best to create a suitable port. > > The current port is available at: > > https://github.com/peterljung/howleditor > > Some things I have came across ... > > * I have installed and tested the port on 6.1 and 6.2 release (amd64) > * It is called howleditor to avoid conflict with avahi > * Avahi has a "@conflict howl-*" in PLIST > * I made a small patch in the Makefile to force setting PREFIX variable > which otherwise is set by ports infrastructure > > Any tips for improvements? >
Hi Peter, Port looks pretty good. Biggest thing you're going to want to fix is how Howl downloads external dependencies and builds them locally. You will want to use our ports versions. Ie. LuaJIT, LPEG and maybe others. -- James Turner
