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Port details
pointless Pointless is a presentation tool primarily targeted at the un*x world
0.5 misc Deleted on this many watch lists=2 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.5Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Deprecated DEPRECATED: No longer actively maintained
Expired This port expired on: 2006-10-01
Maintainer: xi@borderworlds.dk search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2003-07-02 17:37:49
Last Update: 2006-10-02 12:38:35
SVN Revision: UNKNOWN
People watching this port, also watch:: jargon, cscope, libevent
License: not specified in port
WWW:
http://www.pointless.dk/
Description:
Pointless is a presentation tool primarily targeted at the un*x world. Presentations are made using a simple markup-language (best described as a mix between TeX and Pod, and affectionately known as "The Pointless Language"). The resulting slideshow is rendered using FreeType and OpenGL for optimal visual quality. Hardware accelerated OpenGL is highly recommended but not required in order to run pointless. WWW: http://www.pointless.dk/ - Christian xi@borderworlds.dk
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Dependency lines:
  • pointless>0:misc/pointless
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PKGNAME: pointless
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Build dependencies:
  1. gnuplot : math/gnuplot
  2. gs : print/ghostscript-gnu
  3. a2ps : print/a2ps-letter
  4. mpost : print/teTeX
  5. python : lang/python
  6. autoconf259 : devel/autoconf259
Runtime dependencies:
  1. gnuplot : math/gnuplot
  2. gs : print/ghostscript-gnu
  3. a2ps : print/a2ps-letter
  4. mpost : print/teTeX
  5. python : lang/python
  6. autoconf259 : devel/autoconf259
  7. python : lang/python
Library dependencies:
  1. X11.6 : x11/xorg-libraries
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  1. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/
  2. http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pointless/
  3. http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pointless/
  4. http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pointless/
  5. http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pointless/
  6. http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pointless/
  7. http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pointless/
  8. http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pointless/
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Number of commits found: 13

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.5
02 Oct 2006 12:38:35
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vd search for other commits by this committer
Remove expired ports:
2006-10-01 devel/rtplib
2006-09-01 emulators/linux_base
2006-09-01 emulators/linux_base-debian
2006-09-01 emulators/linux_base-8
2006-09-01 emulators/linux_base-rh-9
2006-10-01 misc/pointless
2006-10-01 www/mediawiki14
0.5
27 Jul 2006 09:14:26
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erwin search for other commits by this committer
There hasn't been a release of pointless in over two and a half years and the
development mailing list has been dead for some time too. Furthermore local
pacthes have been needed since python 2.4 was added to the ports tree.
Schedule for removal in 2 months.

PR:             100910
Submitted by:   Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk> (maintainer)
0.5
22 Jan 2006 12:59:47
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
SHA256ify

Approved by: krion@
0.5
15 Nov 2005 06:52:12
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ade search for other commits by this committer
Mass-conversion to the USE_AUTOTOOLS New World Order.  The code present
in bsd.autotools.mk essentially makes this a no-op given that all the
old variables set a USE_AUTOTOOLS_COMPAT variable, which is parsed in
exactly the same way as USE_AUTOTOOLS itself.

Moreover, USE_AUTOTOOLS has already been extensively tested by the GNOME
team -- all GNOME 2.12.x ports use it.

Preliminary documentation can be found at:
        http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/autotools.txt

which is in the process of being SGMLized before introduction into the
Porters Handbook.

Light blue touch-paper.  Run.
0.5
04 Dec 2004 17:19:10
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arved search for other commits by this committer
Fix build with python 2.4

PR:             74631
Submitted by:   Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
0.5
20 Jun 2004 13:31:24
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erwin search for other commits by this committer
Back out previous commit: dvips is now part of print/teTeX again.

Approved by:    maintainer
0.5
15 Jun 2004 17:09:18
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erwin search for other commits by this committer
dvips has moved from print/teTeX to print/dvipsk-tetex. Reflect this by
adding a dependency on print/dvipsk-tetex.

PR:             67973
Submitted by:   maintainer
0.5
18 Mar 2004 22:06:01
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krion search for other commits by this committer
- SIZE'ify

PR:             ports/64435
Submitted by:   maintainer
0.5
30 Jan 2004 15:59:20
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erwin search for other commits by this committer
This release contains a large number of fixes (including fixes for
a few crashbugs and for serious problems with fullscreen support).
A number of new features has been added as well: tables, scaling of
pll-embedded content (like LaTeX or Metapost), pll-to-tgz packing etc.
It should also be mentioned that pointless no longer uses python
embedded
but has become a plain python extension. Finally pointless now uses far
less memory and cpu cycles.

PR:             62012
Submitted by:   maintainer
0.4_1
09 Nov 2003 15:46:44
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jeh search for other commits by this committer
Both latex and dvips are included in the print/teTeX port, but are
installed from print/latex and print/dvips with the old list of
dependencies, thus resulting in the installation of conflicting ports.
This update removes those dependencies.

Spotted by: Arjan van Leeuwen

While doing the update, I noticed a file missing in the plist, so I added
that as well and bumped the PORTREVISION.

PR:             58863
Submitted By:   MAINTAINER
0.4
31 Aug 2003 12:31:46
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
Upgrade misc/pointless to version 0.4

        This release is mainly a bug-fix and clean-up release but
        a few new features have also been added: The Pll language
        now supports plain background images (not stretched or
        tiled) as well as images with a fixed position.  Customization
        support has been added to some pll commands. As to the
        portability of pointless, the Mac OS port appears to work
        smoothly by now.  Moreover, the SDL variant of pointless
        has been updated to reflect most of the features in the X11
        variant.  Finally, the manual has been updated to reflect
        all new features.

PR:             ports/56228
Submitted by:   Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
0.3
31 Aug 2003 01:15:03
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
[PATCH] misc/pointless: enable choose of ghostscript interpreter

        This patch allows the admin of the machine to choose either
        print/ghostscript-gnu or print/ghostscript-afp1

PR:             ports/54947
Submitted by:   Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
0.3
02 Jul 2003 17:37:17
Original commit files touched by this commit
erwin search for other commits by this committer
Pointless is a presentation tool primarily targeted at the un*x
world. Presentations are made using a simple markup-language (best
described as a mix between TeX and Pod, and affectionately known as
"The Pointless Language"). The resulting slideshow is rendered using
FreeType and OpenGL for optimal visual quality.

Submitted by:   Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>

Number of commits found: 13