hotot-0.9.7-1pclos2012.src.rpm - Available for testing

[Agent Smith]

From its site: Hotot is a "Lightweight, Flexible Microblogging Client" supporting Twitter and Identi.ca at this point of development. You may visit our official website at http://hotot.org/ . Check it out for any updates on Hotot.

Downloaded the srpms from http://mib.pianetalinux.org/MIB/2011.0/srpms/

Adapted the spec and .desktop files to run in PCLinuxOS.

Hope you like it.


Edit: Folks, for some unknown reason, DB didn't let me upload the srpm file. I sent it to Leiche. Hope he can distribute the file.

Best regards

[Agent Smith]

Ok, got it from Fedora's repos, updated to the last version,  adapted the spec, the .desktop file and named it properly: hotot-0.9.7-1pclos2012.src.rpm

Ok

Take a look.

Best regards

[Archie]

Please post a screenshot, AgentSmith. Thank you.

[melodie]

Please post a screenshot, AgentSmith. Thank you.

Hi Archie,
I just discovered this thread with great interest. May I post a screenshot ?



There are more at the Hotot website: http://hotot.org/gallery.html

I am willing to test the package !

Regards,
Mélodie

[Agent Smith]

Nice my friends,

Well, although I was able to make the package, install the RPM and make the program work, for some reason it doesn't connect with Identi.CA
And Twitter is blocked at work, so I can't test if it really works.
I thought this connection issue was a problem of the older version, so, I found the newest srpm I could find, made all the work to make it work under PCLinuxOS, but so far, I can't connect. At least with Identi.CA

Feel free to try it and see if it works.
It's a nice and clean interface.

Best regards

[melodie]

Hi,

I just installed it and you are right about identi.ca : it is broken.

Here is the output:

Some Error Occur
2012-3-11 0:3:35Ooops, An API Error Occurred!
Server is broken. Please try again later.
HTTP Code:500
Details:error

Twitter looks like it works, but I can see only "Undo retweet" instead of "Retweet/Un-retweet this tweet" in the tweets in the home timeline section.

I have aur/hotot 0.9.7git-3 in Archlinux and these two features there work correctly.

[Agent Smith]

Dear Melodie,

The package I built was the best I could do. The Fedora srpm was the newest I could get(0.9.7.1)
So, it may be broken in older versions.
But, if you have access to a newer version(0.9.7.3), you could send me the source and I would try to build the package again.
The spec file I made works very well, and, I believe it doesn't have dependency issues, so, it's a matter of code, something may have changed in the protocols of Identi.CA or Twitter. and the authors haven't changed it yet.

So, I am willing to continue working on this package, if you can provide me the package you have.

What do you say

Best regards,

 

[melodie]

So, I am willing to continue working on this package, if you can provide me the package you have.

Hi,

I am interested that you succeed. Here is the page at AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44430

The link to the sources is in the page.

Here's the new sources link:
https://launchpad.net/~hotot-team/+archive/ppa/+files/hotot_0.9.7~git-1129-g4a9005b-0ubuntu0ppa1~oneiric1.tar.gz

Then there is a patche to their build script (the PKGBUILD). But this should not affect the way you build your spec file.

There is a complexity:

Due to upstream changes, now hotot is a split package:
. hotot-data -> data files, all frontends depends on this
. hotot-gtk2 -> gtk2 frontend
. hotot-gtk3 -> gtk3 frontend
. hotot-qt ---> qt frontend
. hotot-kde --> kde frontend

If you would choose gtk2 for now, I'd be glad...

The PKGBUILD:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ho/hotot/PKGBUILD

description : name, version, and release version are know also in spec files.

makedepends contain the information about the packages necessary for build time.

for hotot-data I see hicolor-icon-theme as depend; hotot-qt (if you choose to create it) needs 'hotot-data'  and 'qtwebkit' ...

I think this should allow you to get the rest of the informations from the pkgbuild. I don't read shell very well, so I can't help much more...

Regards,
Mélodie

[Agent Smith]

Hummmm...
Does it change so radically, from 0.9.7.1 to 0.9.7.3, to have a different structure

I would guess not. But, who knows ?

Thanks for the links, I'm working on it.

Best regards,

Edit: Hummm, the PKGBUILD is very different from our spec files. But I will make it work.

[Agent Smith]

Dear Melodie...
It's alive!!! (As Doctor Frankenstein would say...)

Just tell me what version did you test? The 0.9.6 one Which name has mib in the middle
I was able to make the 0.9.7.45 work.

Take a look at pic below:



Link to a bigger size: http://77.imagebam.com/download/B_N47i_c5p1GdwsQexXz3g/18475/184745147/2012-04-13-114420.jpeg

Ok

Going to repackage it, to make it PCLinuxOS standard, and will release it soon.

Ok

Best regards,

[melodie]

Dear Melodie...
It's alive!!! (As Doctor Frankenstein would say...)

Hi man ! I am happy ! We are going to have an excellent twitter/identi.ca client that is Great News !

Just tell me what version did you test? The 0.9.6 one

Yes, the first one of your thread I think.

Which name has mib in the middle

Yes. As in the "Knoppix MIB" ?? o_^

I was able to make the 0.9.7.45 work.
Take a look at pic below:



Link to a bigger size: http://77.imagebam.com/download/B_N47i_c5p1GdwsQexXz3g/18475/184745147/2012-04-13-114420.jpeg

Ok

My sight lowers so I looked at the large pic. Yes, it looks like the one I have in Archlinux. Same icons at the same place, looks like the twin brother !

Going to repackage it, to make it PCLinuxOS standard, and will release it soon.

Ok

Best regards,

This is Optimale !

Best regards,
Mélodie

PS: have you used this part from the pkgbuild script as well ? "  # remove google analytics tracking code (tnx to ianux) (...)"

[Agent Smith]

Dear Melodie,

I've used the working spec with the latest source tar.gz, which I converted to xz and made it work.

Already sent to the repos, I believe it will be available soon.

Best regards,