#34931: Add "new" to port command -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: david.w.watson@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.1.1 Keywords: | Port: -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Changes (by ryandesign@…): * component: ports => base * type: request => enhancement Comment: New since when? :) -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34931#comment:1> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#34931: Add "new" to port command -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: david.w.watson@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.1.1 Keywords: | Port: -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Comment(by ryandesign@…): No, I'm afraid there isn't any such feature at this time. You can view the [log:trunk/dports repository log] but of course it'll show you every change, not just those that result in a new port being added. As I was trying to ask above, it's not clear how a command like "port new" would work. How many new ports would it show you? Ten? The past week's worth? A month? Since you last ran the command? Since the beginning of time? Even if we had answers to the above, I'm not sure how we'd implement it. I don't think that the PortIndex stores the date when a port was first added to the index. And of course the PortIndex can be completely deleted and recreated; how would such a re-created index know when each port came into existence? And if it's not in the PortIndex, then MacPorts doesn't know it. This might be a candidate for a [browser:contrib contrib] script. If somehow given a range of dates, it could pull the Subversion log as above, and filter it to get only newly added Portfiles. The [browser:contrib /port-whatsnew port-whatsnew] script (which shows you the log of what's changed in a particular port since you installed it) might be a starting point. This would help you find newly added ports, but not new subports added to existing ports; to find new subports, a much more sophisticated algorithm would have to be used, which would probably have to download and look into the source code of each modified Portfile, which would probably make it prohibitively expensive in terms of bandwidth and CPU time. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34931#comment:3> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#34931: Add "new" to port command -------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: david.w.watson@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.1.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | -------------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by larryv@…): Doesn’t answer Ryan’s question.

As I was trying to ask above, it's not clear how a command like "port new" would work. How many new ports would it show you? Ten? The past week's worth? A month? Since you last ran the command? Since the beginning of time?

“Since the last selfupdate” is kind of arbitrary. And the output of `port -d selfupdate` includes all changed ports, not just new ones. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34931#comment:6> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#34931: Add "new" to port command -------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: david.w.watson@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.1.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | -------------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by larryv@…): Replying to [comment:7 egall@…]:

So would any unit of time we choose.

Correct. Which is why I don’t think we should provide any sort of “new ports” functionality at all. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34931#comment:8> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X