Wire port

[Miroslav Lachman]

Mahdi Mokhtari wrote on 2019/03/08 12:03:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:28 AM Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
> Hi Miroslav,
> 
>> I am interested in using Wire on FreeBSD and I found the information
>> about Wire on https://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts where it states WIP
>> and you are listed as a person working on porting.
>> Can I ask you how it goes with porting Wire to FreeBSD and if it will be
>> possible to run it on FreeBSD?
>>
> The WIP on my side goes back in 2017 works on Electron with pizzamig at .
> So far the wire requires that as a dependency, and that's why I
> personally use the webapp now `:)
> 
> After that once I tried to write a similar-to-linux section in the
> package.json[1] of the wire with the assumption "IF we had electron ready".
> But still that's not even useful now I guess.
> 
> If you want to start it I encourage you to take a look at this repo[2]
> and this open issue on upstream[3].
> 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/blob/master/package.json
> [2] https://github.com/yzgyyang/freebsd-ports-electron
> [3] https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/3797

Thank you for your quick reply. I'll take a look on it soon. I am not a 
developer so I think I will not be able to push it forward by my-self. 
But I will try it. :)

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman