ebuilds for gentoo

[tomboy64]

Hi there.

Due to the change from the scons building system it is now reasonably easy to create sane build-scripts for portage, Gentoo's package manager. Gentoo is a source-based distribution, and hence it is an ideal testbed for new applications since it comes already with a working build-environment.

Visiting Gentooers: grab the ebuilds below. (Read up about 3rd-party ebuilds and setting up an overlay if you don't know what to do with those files!)

FreeOrion Developers: please review the dependencies i've included in the build-scripts. This should be straight-forward - just look at the DEPEND and RDEPEND variables.

Direct link to the 1st GiGi ebuild
Direct link to the 1st FreeOrion ebuild

Discussion on Gentoo's bugzilla

[Geoff the Medio]

DESCRIPTION="FreeOrion is a free and open source clone of Master Of Orion"

No, it's not. See the introduction at http://www.freeorion.org

Python 2.6 is required, and Python 3 will not work.

SDL is not required for FreeOrion.

[eleazar]

DESCRIPTION="FreeOrion is a free and open source clone of Master Of Orion"

No, it's not. See the introduction at http://www.freeorion.org

You could say that FreeOrion is "a galactic conquest game in the tradition of the Master of Orion series." But it's not a clone. We're purposely deviating from MoO in numerous major ways. It will probably end up to be no more like MoO than it is like any other random galactic conquest TBS game.

It is free and open source.

[tomboy64]

Thanks.
Geoff already told me in IRC last night - but it was late already and i forgot to alter it.