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wnews An RSS news client for the UNIX console

0.8_1 www Σ=0 0.8_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.

DEPRECATED: Upstream disapear and distfile is no more available

This port expired on: 2011-05-01

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Port Added: 2004-08-27 00:26:13

Last Update: 2011-05-01 18:21:09

SVN Revision: UNKNOWN

License: not specified in port

WWW:

http://www.kerneled.org/projects/wnews/

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This tool downloads and displays RSS news feed from the web and displays them in a page-based curses interface or in parseable line-based output. There is support for HTTP gzip decompression, HTTP proxies, key-binding support and resources editing. WWW: http://www.kerneled.org/projects/wnews/

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wnews>0:www/wnews

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===> The following configuration options are available for wnews-0.8_1: GTK2=off (default) "build the GTK+ 2.0 interface" ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

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0.8_1 01 May 2011 18:21:09	bapt	Remove unmaintained expired ports from www category 2011-05-01 www/indexme: Upstream disapear and distfile is no more available 2011-05-01 www/osb-browser: Abandonware, please use www/webkit-gtk2 2011-05-01 www/osb-nrcit: Abandonware, please use www/webkit-gtk2 2011-05-01 www/osb-nrcore: Abandonware, please use www/webkit-gtk2 2011-05-01 www/pumperweb: Upstream disapear and distfile is no more available 2011-05-01 www/py-ez_web: Upstream disapear and distfile is no more available 2011-05-01 www/py-pullparser: Obsolete and deprecated 2011-05-01 www/sidplug: Upstream disapear and distfile is no more available 2011-05-01 www/twhttpd: Upstream disapear and distfile is no more available 2011-05-01 www/wnews: Upstream disapear and distfile is no more available 2011-05-01 www/xpath2rss: Upstream disapear and distfile is no more available
0.8_1 19 Mar 2011 12:38:54	miwi	- Get Rid MD5 support
0.8_1 11 Mar 2011 23:54:39	bapt	Deprecate unmaintained ports from www where upstream disapear and/or where no distfiles can be found and are not used by maintained ports thanks eadler for the help
0.8_1 19 Aug 2009 19:50:32	linimon	Reset sbahra at his request due to lack of time to work on these ports.
0.8_1 21 Jun 2008 09:35:15	miwi	- Update MASTER_SITES Submitted by: sbahra (maintainer via irc)
0.8_1 07 Mar 2007 05:40:29	linimon	Update maintainer's email address. Requested by: maintainer
0.8_1 07 May 2006 21:22:19	pav	- Update MASTER_SITE PR: ports/96951 Submitted by: Samy Al Bahra <sbahra@kerneled.org> (maintainer)
0.8_1 15 Apr 2006 22:21:14	cperciva	Change maintainer email address. Submitted by: maintainer
0.8_1 24 Jan 2006 03:14:23	edwin	SHA256ify Approved by: krion@
0.8_1 05 Nov 2005 05:22:06	marcus	Bump PORTREVISION to chase the glib20 shared library update.
0.8 24 Jul 2005 18:09:18	jylefort	Update to 0.8 PR: ports/83889 Submitted by: maintainer
0.7 27 Aug 2004 00:23:37	edwin	[New port] wnews: a command-line RSS client This tool downloads and displays RSS news feed from the web and displays them in a page-based curses interface or in parseable line-based output. There is support for HTTP gzip decompression, HTTP proxies, key-binding support and resources editing. PR: ports/70820 Submitted by: Samy Al Bahra <samy@kerneled.org>

Number of commits found: 12

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