March 2007 - macports-dev - lists.macosforge.org

MacPorts and Summer of Code
by Anant Narayanan 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi All, Will MacPorts be participating in the Google Summer of Code 2007? I highly recommend you do so :) Last date for Mentoring organizations to apply is March 5th, so we still have time left. If MacPorts does apply and get selected; I for one, will surely send in an application ;) Best Regards, -- Anant P.S. For those of you who don't know what the Summer of Code is, http://code.google.com/soc/ is the place to go. Google sponsors several open source projects over the summer for tasks that are important to them.

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nco-3.1.9
by Enomoto Takeshi 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hello, I submitted nco-3.1.8 (#11517) yesterday but learned that 3.1.9 is out. I updated the port (#11540). In relation to nco I updated netcdf (#11543) and added udunits (#11542). Could someone remove #11513 and #11517? Takeshi

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Ticket 11275 - please commit py-m2crypto update to 0.17
by Eric Tiffany 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

I applied this patch in this ticket 11275 to the py-m2crypt portfile (updates from 0.16 to 0.17) and installed. Seemed to work fine. Could someone please commit? Thanks, ET

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New and update math/science ports
by Takeshi Enomoto 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Hello, I am new to MacPorts and would like to contribute new and update ports mainly in math and science. I have some comments on MacPorts homepage. I find the home page unfriendly to newbies. They have to find clicking "wiki." Although I understand that WordPress is used so news are shown, a page for the first step is needed. I had hard time finding that how to contribute until I find "Trac." 1. You have to register. 2. You have to know what Trac is. 3. You have to find the attachment appears on the next page to the new ticket page. For give me for full of complains. In fact I find MacPorts useful and I would like to switch to MacPorts and contribute several math/ science packages. List of my tickets. * infrastructure: g95-0.90: 11511 odcctools 20060608 (required for g95-0.90): 11512 netcdf-3.6.1 (an update): 11513 libdap-3.7.5: 11514 libnc-dap-3.7.0: 11515 cdo-1.0.6: 11516 nco-3.1.8: 11517 mpich2-1.0.5p3 (an update): 11525 * script languages for math/science: octave-2.9.9 (an update): 11518 octave-forge (an update, g95 variant): 11519 gdl-0.9pre4: 11524 * plotting package: plplot-5.7.2 (for gdl): 11522 freetype-2.3.1 (required by plplot): 11520 freefont-ttf (required by plplot): 11521 gsl-1.9 (an update): 11523 - Components for 11519 and 11512 should have been ports. - Types for 11513, 11514, 11515, 11525 should have been enhancement. - In fact I don't now which to choose from those menus well. - It is not clear to me your policy how to set dependencies (old doc incomplete). - Do dependencies need a version number? How can I set it? Best wishes, Takeshi

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John port / TCL inconsitency ?
by Jann Röder 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Hi guys, have a look at this ticket: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/11526 I wrote this port and I had to make this ugly reimplace command to make it work on Mac OS X PPC, obviously on intel things are a little different. Any idea how to fix this ? Other than a separate intel reimplace command with less \ . reinplace "s,CFLAGS =,CFLAGS = -DJOHN_SYSTEMWIDE=1 -DJOHN_SYSTEMWIDE_EXEC=\\\\\\\\\\\\\"${prefix}/share/john\\\\\\\\\\\\\" -DJOHN_SYSTEMWIDE_HOME=\\\\\\\\\\\\\"${prefix}/share/john\\\\\\\\\\\\\",g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile Jann

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MacPorts 1.4 release candidate 1
by Juan Manuel Palacios 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Evening everyone! I just uploaded 1.4 release candidate 1 tarballs and corresponding checksums to http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/MacPorts-1.4. I would love it if all of us could reinstall mp from there and test as extensively as possible to get any outstanding bugs fixed (none reported until now), so we can finally release 1.4 ASAP now. For those of you actively hacking on base, feel free to commit to the release_1_4 branch if you have any fixes handy; those preferring to stay clear from base but with something to report, trac is your venue (with a message to this list forwarding the ticket number, thanks). In any case, no new features, just bug fixes and, at most, documentation updates, just as with any other release ;-) I wont be here for the weekend (don't worry, I'll finish the SoC application before I leave ;-) so I'll only take a look at 1.4 on Monday at best. If there are bug fixes I'll create an rc2 as soon as I get back; otherwise, I think we can wait a full week from today before finally cutting 1.4. Do feel free to object to that plan if you have any better suggestions. Other than that... test away! Regards,... -jmpp

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Universal ports: mozilla's unify script
by Ryan Schmidt 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

If we're serious about universal binaries, the mozilla project's unify script is useful. Install once for ppc to a given path, install a second time for i386 to a different path, then call unify, telling it where your ppc and i386 builds are, and it combines them into a new third tree, using lipo on any files as needed. If you can build without using lipo, great, but if you need lipo, then unify is a time saver, not having to engineer all that logic again of figuring out what needs to be lipo'd. Now it's just a question of licensing, and I'm no expert in that. Is it possible to take the unify script from mozilla and incorporate it nicely into MacPorts? Are our respective licenses compatible for that kind of inclusion?

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port uninstall should consider upgraded ports
by Yves de Champlain 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hi Example (the story is real, only the versions numbers have been changed) : port upgrade gtk2 ... port installed : gtk2 2.10.4 gtk2 2.10.8 (active) port uninstall inactive : can't uninstall gtk2 2.10.4 because gimp2 depends on it. I am right to expect NOT having to force such an uninstall ? yves

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Request: Commit update to ufraw in ticket 11491
by Frank Mcpherson 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

ufraw has been updated from 0.10 to 0.11. Could someone please commit this simple change? http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/11491 Thanks, Frank

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A 1.4 release
by Juan Manuel Palacios 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hello everybody! For those of you who don't know me because you're rather new here, I would like to introduce myself: I am one of the three {Darwin,Mac}Ports old... team members holding the "honorary" title of "Project Manager" who has been too swamped by Real Life these last months to manage to get any productive work done on this great project, hoping that'll change in the not too distant future. I'll tell you though that at one point I did come to be known as a quite active contributor, so there! :-P To the new and old blood that's still with us, thank you so much for your continued drive and enthusiasm put into this project, we wouldn't be walking on our own two feet if it weren't for you! Now, however, I have been lurking on this list and have kept an eye over a couple of issues which I believe warrant a new minor release of our infrastructure, 1.4 I propose. As I am not exactly called Mr. Current Affairs at this point in time, I would like to call for some feedback on what should be considered for inclusion in the new release, but I think I can at least propose a small starter list: 1) Final and long overdue DarwinPorts --> MacPorts migration in our base code, carried out by Randall Wood if he so volunteers; 2) Migration to SourForge's new mirrors redirection mechanism in our trunk/base/src/port1.0/resources/fetch/mirros_sites.tcl file, with the addition of maybe two or three hardcoded fail-safe mirrors as suggested in the mail forwarded by Kevin Ballard; 3) The addition of a MacPorts mirror list in the same file with a starting single entry pointing to a distfiles/ (or any other better idea) location in our svn repo, where we can start loading selected distfiles for projects missing them at their main sites. Such list could pave the way for a future MacPorts mirroring system, as adding new entries to it would be transparent to users and Portfiles, the latter only having to use "master_sites macports:foo:bar" to leverage our mirrors just as they currently do SourceForge's; 4) Any other differences between trunk/base and /brances/release_1_3, to be integrated into a future release_1_4 branch, including but not limited to: -) the unarchive --> archive rollback of my earlier "fix", performed by Daniel Luke; -) Kevin Ballard's fast_load improvements; -) a new portfile.7 man page, I think...? -) anything else I'm missing...? Anyone care to diff the two code bases? ;-) Please feel free to append to this list whatever you feel should be included in the new release branch, lets brainstorm at least a bit over all the ideas. In any case, I would like to point out it wouldn't be too wise to try to fix the entire world with 1.4, I have myself voiced some rather large and therefore mid-term goals for the project as a whole and have also heard of some interesting ones from other developers, but needless to say all those warrant wider discussion and consensus among us all, so lets try to keep this release a small and focused one, comprising only necessary and urgent fixes. World domination may come later on! ;-) We used to have a pretty good and detailed page detailing our release process, most kindly created by James Berry, up in our old Wiki, but I don't believe it survived the migration so I'll see if I can coordinate with Kevin Van Vechten to resurrect it. Once I do I would like to call for someone (someone*s* ;-) volunteering to give me a hand putting together the release, as there are a few things to keep an eye over and I don't think mine alone will suffice. Once we get this ball rolling I'll post a release candidate I would like all of use to test as extensively as possible, so keep your eyes open for future announcements, please. Thanks again for your hard work put into the project and for bearing with me this far in my mail (yeah, still jmpp -v -v -v, some things never change!). Hope we can make a great 1.4 release and thus pave the way to move forward in great leaps :-D Much regards to all,... -jmpp

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