What software ports are really missing?
mark adrian bell
m487396 at rocketmail.com
Thu Jul 8 05:39:54 EDT 2010
Hi Jirka,
It's just a suggestion, but how about HNB? It's a hierarchical note taking program for the console. I used to use it a lot before I switched to Zim.
http://hnb.sourceforge.net/
One day I'm going to learn how to port applications too.
- mark
--- On Thu, 8/7/10, jirka <jirka at penguin.cz> wrote:
> From: jirka <jirka at penguin.cz>
> Subject: What software ports are really missing?
> To: "Users mailinglist , support, findings, use cases and fun" <discussion at lists.qi-hardware.com>
> Received: Thursday, 8 July, 2010, 5:03 PM
> Hello all,
>
> I have a question: what software is still have to be ported
> to our little
> Nanonotes?
> What do you need? I mean ports to the OpenWRT
> distribution.
>
> I have tried to port several things with limited success.
> Maybe you will want some of them (I can try to port them
> once more).
> Here is the list (in random order):
>
> - nut (nutrition manager) - it compiles (with warning about
> COPTS)
> but it doesn´t run ("Segmentation fault.")
> - calc (arbitrary precision calculator - you may know the
> "apcalc"
> package in Debian) - it doesn't compile
> - links 2.3 web browser - the white screen (of death...) in
> the graphical
> mode;
> the text mode is ok (I can provide Makefile and IPK
> for text-only
> "links" - it
> works better than elinks, BTW)
> - gnuplot - unable to build package but binary can be
> compiled
> (there is no mode for DirectFB; possibly the GGI can
> be used
> but it will require more work)
> - todo.sh (see todotxt.com - it's a simple but neat
> personal task manager)
>
> works but have to be packaged (the bash and the real
> "sed" are needed)
> - charm (LiveJournal/Blogger/... command line interface) -
> seems to work
> but it have to be packaged (it's a Python script)
> - clex (one-window file manager) - it requires a curses
> library
> with support of wide characters (?)
> - groff (GNU version of the roff, troff, nroff - it's
> needed for viewing
> of man pages and it can be used for old-school
> typesetting) - it have
> to be packaged (a distribution of this thing have to
> include a lot of
> files)
> - ctopy (C to Python translator) - honestly, I newer tried
> to run this
> - snownews (RSS feed reader) - some libraries are required
> to be ported
> first
> - yapet (password manager) - some functions are missing in
> the OpenSSL
> library in OpenWRT
>
> I personally miss a good file browser/manager (the Midnight
> Commander is
> OK, but it
> doesn't fit to NanoNote's small screen - only a small parts
> of file names
> are visible
> and so on).
>
> Best regards,
> Jiri Brozovsky (jirka)
>
>
>
>
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