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Port details
novelwriter Text editor designed for writing novels
2.6.3 editors on this many watch lists=2 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 2.5.2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2022-10-16 22:15:31
Last Update: 2025-02-17 06:43:39
Commit Hash: aec6803
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Also Listed In: python
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://novelwriter.io/
https://github.com/vkbo/novelwriter
Description:
novelWriter is a markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It is designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, with a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files, and built on plain text files for robustness.
HomepageHomepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
There is no configure plist information for this port.
Dependency lines:
  • novelwriter>0:editors/novelwriter
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/editors/novelwriter/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install editors/novelwriter
  • pkg install novelwriter
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: novelwriter
Package flavors (<flavor>: <package>)
  • py311: novelwriter
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1739770802 SHA256 (vkbo-novelWriter-v2.6.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 8d18acf0069852c2598e73c3b76b4a8cf1d1c96d485d5165ff8cf3337ec7f920 SIZE (vkbo-novelWriter-v2.6.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 7884399

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
novelwriter
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest2.6.32.6.3--2.6.3---
FreeBSD:13:quarterly2.6.32.6.3-2.5.22.6.3-2.22.2
FreeBSD:14:latest2.6.32.6.3--2.6.3--2.0.7_1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly2.5.22.6.3-2.5.22.6.3-2.22.2
FreeBSD:15:latest2.6.32.6.3n/a2.6.3n/a-2.2.1-
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. py311-setuptools>0 : devel/py-setuptools@py311
  2. py311-lxml>0 : devel/py-lxml@py311
  3. py311-enchant>=3.0.0 : textproc/py-enchant@py311
  4. py311-wheel>=0 : devel/py-wheel@py311
  5. python3.11 : lang/python311
  6. py311-qt5-pyqt>=5.15.11 : devel/py-qt5-pyqt@py311
  7. py311-build>=0 : devel/py-build@py311
  8. py311-installer>=0 : devel/py-installer@py311
Test dependencies:
  1. python3.11 : lang/python311
  2. py311-qt5-pyqt>=5.15.11 : devel/py-qt5-pyqt@py311
Runtime dependencies:
  1. py311-lxml>0 : devel/py-lxml@py311
  2. py311-enchant>=3.0.0 : textproc/py-enchant@py311
  3. python3.11 : lang/python311
  4. py311-qt5-pyqt>=5.15.11 : devel/py-qt5-pyqt@py311
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
editors_novelwriter
USES:
python pyqt:5
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/tar.gz/v2.6.3?dummy=/
  2. https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/v/vkbo-novelWriter-v2.6.3_GH0/
  3. https://pypi.org/packages/source/v/vkbo-novelWriter-v2.6.3_GH0/
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Number of commits found: 27

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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2.6.3
17 Feb 2025 06:43:39
commit hash: aec68039ad6222327f2c556c832bea6ad550fe05commit hash: aec68039ad6222327f2c556c832bea6ad550fe05commit hash: aec68039ad6222327f2c556c832bea6ad550fe05commit hash: aec68039ad6222327f2c556c832bea6ad550fe05 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.6 → 2.6.3

Reported by:	portscout
2.6
27 Jan 2025 03:30:27
commit hash: c1e6b7285cf58317d0cca4857b1c96af2691dbd4commit hash: c1e6b7285cf58317d0cca4857b1c96af2691dbd4commit hash: c1e6b7285cf58317d0cca4857b1c96af2691dbd4commit hash: c1e6b7285cf58317d0cca4857b1c96af2691dbd4 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.5.3 → 2.6
2.5.3
13 Jan 2025 07:28:26
commit hash: 558a9113cbc2d678b1058e479b9210917bd783f0commit hash: 558a9113cbc2d678b1058e479b9210917bd783f0commit hash: 558a9113cbc2d678b1058e479b9210917bd783f0commit hash: 558a9113cbc2d678b1058e479b9210917bd783f0 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.5.2 → 2.5.3
2.5.2
18 Sep 2024 09:16:02
commit hash: c43f809b63e4e01f2da0bc2140d8a7261c97ef7acommit hash: c43f809b63e4e01f2da0bc2140d8a7261c97ef7acommit hash: c43f809b63e4e01f2da0bc2140d8a7261c97ef7acommit hash: c43f809b63e4e01f2da0bc2140d8a7261c97ef7a files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.5.1 → 2.5.2

Reported by:	portscout
2.5.1
30 Jul 2024 02:01:56
commit hash: a3e62cfdceda681028b26759a2fae38634f74230commit hash: a3e62cfdceda681028b26759a2fae38634f74230commit hash: a3e62cfdceda681028b26759a2fae38634f74230commit hash: a3e62cfdceda681028b26759a2fae38634f74230 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.5 → 2.5.1

Reported by:	portscout
2.5
12 Jul 2024 03:51:23
commit hash: 4e15c0430f8cd20d47b9469cfdc32f770d59f141commit hash: 4e15c0430f8cd20d47b9469cfdc32f770d59f141commit hash: 4e15c0430f8cd20d47b9469cfdc32f770d59f141commit hash: 4e15c0430f8cd20d47b9469cfdc32f770d59f141 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.4.4 → 2.5

Reported by:	portscout
2.4.4
13 Jun 2024 05:23:03
commit hash: 8373094e61320a5e73dc6445ae12ab76299e7daccommit hash: 8373094e61320a5e73dc6445ae12ab76299e7daccommit hash: 8373094e61320a5e73dc6445ae12ab76299e7daccommit hash: 8373094e61320a5e73dc6445ae12ab76299e7dac files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.4.3 → 2.4.4

Reported by:	portscout
2.4.3
26 May 2024 21:57:10
commit hash: dc9850988c6b4b9d445043579a62312dd7f271e0commit hash: dc9850988c6b4b9d445043579a62312dd7f271e0commit hash: dc9850988c6b4b9d445043579a62312dd7f271e0commit hash: dc9850988c6b4b9d445043579a62312dd7f271e0 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.4.1 → 2.4.3

Reported by:	portscout
2.4.1
07 May 2024 07:17:02
commit hash: c847f381fa867e6bcf2e8f0684d70b6045ff6491commit hash: c847f381fa867e6bcf2e8f0684d70b6045ff6491commit hash: c847f381fa867e6bcf2e8f0684d70b6045ff6491commit hash: c847f381fa867e6bcf2e8f0684d70b6045ff6491 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.4 → 2.4.1

Reported by:	portscout
2.4
21 Apr 2024 15:13:34
commit hash: 3b2c9a8592a9ae731109d2722d50ba506cb465c2commit hash: 3b2c9a8592a9ae731109d2722d50ba506cb465c2commit hash: 3b2c9a8592a9ae731109d2722d50ba506cb465c2commit hash: 3b2c9a8592a9ae731109d2722d50ba506cb465c2 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.3.1 → 2.4

Reported by:	portscout
2.3.1
22 Mar 2024 01:19:02
commit hash: 693133595d8aa9f79b6b523334ac5245e9b27a0fcommit hash: 693133595d8aa9f79b6b523334ac5245e9b27a0fcommit hash: 693133595d8aa9f79b6b523334ac5245e9b27a0fcommit hash: 693133595d8aa9f79b6b523334ac5245e9b27a0f files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.3 → 2.3.1

Reported by:	portscout
2.3
11 Mar 2024 17:53:45
commit hash: e9ff61542a8675f5adac4bf9b8b81d1815313f88commit hash: e9ff61542a8675f5adac4bf9b8b81d1815313f88commit hash: e9ff61542a8675f5adac4bf9b8b81d1815313f88commit hash: e9ff61542a8675f5adac4bf9b8b81d1815313f88 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.2.1 → 2.3

Reported by:	portscout
2.2.1
28 Jan 2024 20:44:40
commit hash: 6d8a7a9ae48a1de876a6301a8275c13b9ba36440commit hash: 6d8a7a9ae48a1de876a6301a8275c13b9ba36440commit hash: 6d8a7a9ae48a1de876a6301a8275c13b9ba36440commit hash: 6d8a7a9ae48a1de876a6301a8275c13b9ba36440 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.2 → 2.2.1

Reported by:	portscout
2.2
18 Dec 2023 07:59:21
commit hash: 2b9ebfcfc0b113939dc4a77116edf7639eeddbd4commit hash: 2b9ebfcfc0b113939dc4a77116edf7639eeddbd4commit hash: 2b9ebfcfc0b113939dc4a77116edf7639eeddbd4commit hash: 2b9ebfcfc0b113939dc4a77116edf7639eeddbd4 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.1.1 → 2.2

Reported by:	portscout
2.1.1
06 Nov 2023 05:27:28
commit hash: beb45c86e07e514b53fdd363f87c5413b8206460commit hash: beb45c86e07e514b53fdd363f87c5413b8206460commit hash: beb45c86e07e514b53fdd363f87c5413b8206460commit hash: beb45c86e07e514b53fdd363f87c5413b8206460 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: update 2.0.7 → 2.1.1

Reported by:	portscout
2.0.7_1
27 Jun 2023 19:34:34
commit hash: 3d9a815d9c5acbb71f4bb07738bdeab4879feacbcommit hash: 3d9a815d9c5acbb71f4bb07738bdeab4879feacbcommit hash: 3d9a815d9c5acbb71f4bb07738bdeab4879feacbcommit hash: 3d9a815d9c5acbb71f4bb07738bdeab4879feacb files touched by this commit
Rene Ladan (rene) search for other commits by this committer
all: remove explicit versions in USES=python for "3.x+"

The logic in USES=python will automatically convert this to 3.8+ by
itself.

Adjust two ports that only had Python 3.7 mentioned but build fine
on Python 3.8 too.

finance/quickfix: mark BROKEN with PYTHON

libtool: compile:  c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I -I. -I.. -I../.. -I../C++
-DLIBICONV_PLUG -DPYTHON_MAJOR_VERSION=3 -Wno-unused-variable
-Wno-maybe-uninitialized -O2 -pipe -DLIBICONV_PLUG -fstack-protector-strong
-fno-strict-aliasing -DLIBICONV_PLUG -Wall -ansi
-Wno-unused-command-line-argument -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings
-Wno-overloaded-virtual -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-deprecated -std=c++0x
-MT _quickfix_la-QuickfixPython.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/_quickfix_la-QuickfixPython.Tpo -c QuickfixPython.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o
.libs/_quickfix_la-QuickfixPython.o
warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-maybe-uninitialized'; did you mean
'-Wno-uninitialized'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]
QuickfixPython.cpp:175:11: fatal error: 'Python.h' file not found
          ^~~~~~~~~~
1 warning and 1 error generated.

Reviewed by:	portmgr, vishwin, yuri
Differential Revision:	<https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40568>
2.0.7_1
25 Apr 2023 15:17:15
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Christian Weisgerber (naddy) search for other commits by this committer
audio/opus: bump consumers after update to 1.4
2.0.7
16 Apr 2023 20:04:55
commit hash: 2665f9087c810dd1e5ada1d2edac12bf0baf7f72commit hash: 2665f9087c810dd1e5ada1d2edac12bf0baf7f72commit hash: 2665f9087c810dd1e5ada1d2edac12bf0baf7f72commit hash: 2665f9087c810dd1e5ada1d2edac12bf0baf7f72 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: Update 2.0.6 → 2.0.7

Reported by:	portscout
2.0.6_1
09 Mar 2023 11:15:07
commit hash: 6d3a647cc0ba425475074038caed83f68bd739b2commit hash: 6d3a647cc0ba425475074038caed83f68bd739b2commit hash: 6d3a647cc0ba425475074038caed83f68bd739b2commit hash: 6d3a647cc0ba425475074038caed83f68bd739b2 files touched by this commit
Loïc Bartoletti (lbartoletti) search for other commits by this committer
PyQt: Update to latest versions

- PyQt5: update to 5.15.9
- PyQt6: upate to 6.4.2
- PyQt6-sip: update to 13.4.1
- PyQt5-sip: update to 12.11.1
- PyQt-builder: update to 1.14.1
- sip: upate to 6.7.7

PR:		269751
Exp-run by:	antoine
2.0.6
27 Feb 2023 20:28:00
commit hash: cc02bad6d356353a585b66e7d7dce2644ee7a140commit hash: cc02bad6d356353a585b66e7d7dce2644ee7a140commit hash: cc02bad6d356353a585b66e7d7dce2644ee7a140commit hash: cc02bad6d356353a585b66e7d7dce2644ee7a140 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: Update 2.0.5 → 2.0.6

Reported by:	portscout
2.0.5
14 Feb 2023 02:30:57
commit hash: 574959330af4f45305aeb9c079e6fd69146411bacommit hash: 574959330af4f45305aeb9c079e6fd69146411bacommit hash: 574959330af4f45305aeb9c079e6fd69146411bacommit hash: 574959330af4f45305aeb9c079e6fd69146411ba files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: Update 2.0.4 → 2.0.5

Reported by:	portscout
2.0.4
30 Jan 2023 08:44:52
commit hash: 1d6533dcc1dfc4602d0f028bc52da6f3c282fdc9commit hash: 1d6533dcc1dfc4602d0f028bc52da6f3c282fdc9commit hash: 1d6533dcc1dfc4602d0f028bc52da6f3c282fdc9commit hash: 1d6533dcc1dfc4602d0f028bc52da6f3c282fdc9 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: Update 2.0.3 → 2.0.4

Reported by:	portscout
2.0.3
11 Jan 2023 15:58:34
commit hash: 77d68471aded6907dbbcb5ef50d557e4c69db656commit hash: 77d68471aded6907dbbcb5ef50d557e4c69db656commit hash: 77d68471aded6907dbbcb5ef50d557e4c69db656commit hash: 77d68471aded6907dbbcb5ef50d557e4c69db656 files touched by this commit
Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) search for other commits by this committer
*/*: rename CHEESESHOP to PYPI in MASTER_SITES

PR:			267994
Differential revision:	D37518
Approved by:		bapt
2.0.3
10 Jan 2023 07:59:53
commit hash: 4af8b18dd90296245eeb2d70d967a4b39cc9c22ecommit hash: 4af8b18dd90296245eeb2d70d967a4b39cc9c22ecommit hash: 4af8b18dd90296245eeb2d70d967a4b39cc9c22ecommit hash: 4af8b18dd90296245eeb2d70d967a4b39cc9c22e files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: Update 2.0.2 -> 2.0.3

Reported by:	portscout
2.0.2
02 Dec 2022 02:08:34
commit hash: 038a34946a0d50f312f3984e01603efe8ff5d1ebcommit hash: 038a34946a0d50f312f3984e01603efe8ff5d1ebcommit hash: 038a34946a0d50f312f3984e01603efe8ff5d1ebcommit hash: 038a34946a0d50f312f3984e01603efe8ff5d1eb files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: Update 2.0 -> 2.0.2
2.0
30 Nov 2022 11:47:58
commit hash: 7aab23c2e6965cc277ac966d186a5841aee1dc8ecommit hash: 7aab23c2e6965cc277ac966d186a5841aee1dc8ecommit hash: 7aab23c2e6965cc277ac966d186a5841aee1dc8ecommit hash: 7aab23c2e6965cc277ac966d186a5841aee1dc8e files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editors/novelwriter: Update 1.6.5 -> 2.0

Reported by:	portscout
1.6.5
16 Oct 2022 22:14:45
commit hash: 0f98ff01e156a2941c5c02c839ec80a49490fcf2commit hash: 0f98ff01e156a2941c5c02c839ec80a49490fcf2commit hash: 0f98ff01e156a2941c5c02c839ec80a49490fcf2commit hash: 0f98ff01e156a2941c5c02c839ec80a49490fcf2 files touched by this commit
Yuri Victorovich (yuri) search for other commits by this committer
editor/novelwriter: New port: Text editor designed for writing novels

Number of commits found: 27