Package Details: electricsheep-git 3.0.2.git.20221208.37ba0fd-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/electricsheep-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: electricsheep-git
Description: Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves. (gold sheep supported!)
Upstream URL: http://gold.electricsheep.org/about
Licenses: GPL
Conflicts: electricsheep, electricsheep-svn
Provides: electricsheep
Submitter: bramswenson
Maintainer: EndlessEden
Last Packager: EndlessEden
Votes: 20
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2017-12-16 00:44 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2022-12-07 14:16 (UTC)

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EndlessEden commented on 2022-12-07 14:24 (UTC)

(temporarily?) took this over.

Fixed the pkgbuild so it actually builds, added some build-flags for compatibility, swapped wxgtk from wxgtk2 to wxgtk3 (they are compatible), slightly altered the versioning string to include data (Emulating the Official PPA's versioning string) and (temporarily) swapped source for ffmpeg5 patch thats been in the pull-requests since may-2022.


Should also heavily note: Upstream look incredibly inactive. I dont see anything going on in the repo (from the maintainers) since 2018/2019. So i would expect some server-side bugs and possible runtime bugs. | please share any info.

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TwoLeaves commented on 2015-10-03 04:04 (UTC)

The 'lua' dependency needs to be replaced with 'lua51' for this package to build currently. Also, has anyone played with the compile flags for this program? Is it possible to build it with the old mplayer support? The new OpenGL renderer uses much more CPU than I would like it to (compared to VA-API output).

clayman commented on 2014-11-21 20:57 (UTC)

Updated to -2 because the previous version couldn't compile correctly (a missing build subdirectory and wrong detection of the GLee library). This one should work fine.

clayman commented on 2014-11-16 14:30 (UTC)

Okay, I have updated the PKGBUILD with the most recent build/run-time dependencies and SVN revision. The package builds and runs on my machine but I may have missed a dependency so if anyone runs into trouble, shout out here and I'll look into it.

nrq commented on 2014-07-22 10:39 (UTC)

Package disowned as I stopped using electricsheep for now, so anyone who wants to take care of it, go ahead.

clayman commented on 2013-11-24 10:17 (UTC)

Hi guys, I'm happy to report that my patches have been accepted upstream, so the current SVN version #148 should at least compile and run correctly, including the setup tool. There still are some more issues that I hope to be able to iron out soon (such as the ability to render to a window like in KDE 4's screen saver setup dialog and correct handling of multidisplay systems) but the core functionality should work. Also, wxgtk2.9 is a requirement, the preferences tool won't compile with 2.8.

clayman commented on 2013-11-17 15:47 (UTC)

Also, I think ES no longer uses mplayer to render stuff, it's all done in OpenGL (on Linux anyway) so the mplayer dependency can go too.

clayman commented on 2013-11-17 15:45 (UTC)

Hi guys! Since the current SVN version of ElectricSheep is still pretty much broken, I have decided to take matters in my own hands and I have come up with a patch that at least gets electricsheep to run and display something. Alas, the configuration utility is still broken and crashes after a few seconds because of an assertion failure somewhere in the pango library. Today I have contacted the dev(s) of ES to get my patch(es) incorporated upstream. I'll see what their reaction will be and will sort things out if need be.

clayman commented on 2013-06-24 08:08 (UTC)

Has anyone tried to compile the latest SVN version of electicsheep lately? I have been getting a huge mixed load of warnings about deprecated calls and errors about missing symbols. I have managed to fix some configure issues but the code gives me a hard time when I try to fix the problems.

nrq commented on 2013-02-11 08:33 (UTC)

No problem, mate, anyway looks like the community's version is working now.

Hideaki commented on 2012-12-24 02:12 (UTC)

Thanks for taking over, hnrch. Unfortunately, I am no longer an Arch user so I can't maintain the package anymore.