[Tor-BSD] Ricochet on FreeBSD

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Sun Jan 10 08:37:16 EST 2016


Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:

> Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> 
> > George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > If you haven't heard, there was a recent beta release of Tor Messenger
> > > (https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-messenger-beta-chat-over-tor-easily/
> > > 
> > > There is more movement towards reproducible builds but obviously for
> > > those trying to port Tor Messenger, source is necessary, and it is
> > > located on the Tor gitweb at
> > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-messenger-build.git/tree/.    
> > 
> > Note that unless you have an unlimited amount of time, building on
> > "unsupported platforms" is not recommended by upstream and source
> > tar ball are apparently too much to ask for:
> > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-July/009000.html
> > 
> > Therefore Ricochet seems to be less hassle to port (and might even compile
> > of of the box if Qt is already working):
> > https://ricochet.im/  
> 
> Thus I created a port for ElectroBSD and would expect it
> to build on FreeBSD as well.

Oh well, as it turns out Yuri already submitted a FreeBSD port
last June and it finally made it into the tree:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200999

Fabian
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