Porting applications with "nice" installers

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 29 June 2012 16:50, Fernando Apesteguía
> <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, I read the answer but I forgot to to ask to CC me since I'm not
>> subscribed to the list :S
>>
>> I had a look at the Opera port. The script is uses is a non-gui one.
>> The applications I'm talking about provide full graphical installation
>> programs.
>>
>> I suppose I should try to somehow get rid of them.
>
> Of course, disclosing the program that you are trying to port might
> give some people some pointers :)

Sorry! I didn't mean it to be a secret XD

One of them is JDownloader as it is listed[1] as one of the "wanted ports".
The other one is Visual Paradigm[2] that seems to me a better tool
than other similar present in the ports like ArgoUML (that I had to
use recently).

JDownloader launches an update utility (graphical) to download the
latest package from the web site and installs it in the $HOME
directory.

VisualParadigm uses a graphical installer in the normal Unix package.
There is also a Unix non-installer package but trying to launch the
application as provided by this package assumes it is the Enterprise
Edition so it just works as an 30 day evalution copy.

[1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts
[2] www.visual-paradigm.com/UMLTool


>
> Chris