Is there any interest in creating a MacPort of this project? http:// sqlfairy.sourceforge.net/ I don't know perl well enough to know what's involved. SR
On Jun 29, 2007, at 00:45, Steven Rogers wrote:
Is there any interest in creating a MacPort of this project? http://sqlfairy.sourceforge.net/
I don't know perl well enough to know what's involved.
That's just fine -- MacPorts doesn't use Perl! :) Portfiles are written in Tcl, which is a lot more like writing a configuration file than a script. It's easy. If you'd like to write a portfile for SQLFairy we'd be happy to accept it. Best way to get started is to read the old docs, and look at existing portfiles to see how they work (type "port edit mysql5" or "port edit php5" for some complicated examples, or "port edit pkgconfig" or "port edit cairo" for some simple ones). See also the portfile manpage ("man portfile"). The old docs are in the archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20060427120406/darwinports.opendarwin.org/ docs/
On Jun 29, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jun 29, 2007, at 00:45, Steven Rogers wrote:
Is there any interest in creating a MacPort of this project? http://sqlfairy.sourceforge.net/
I don't know perl well enough to know what's involved.
That's just fine -- MacPorts doesn't use Perl! :) Portfiles are written in Tcl, which is a lot more like writing a configuration file than a script. It's easy.
Yeah - I know that, but SQL Fairy is written in Perl, and I don't really understand what's needed to make it build. I finally got it to work using CPAN, which was a nightmare involving typing in commands that look more like assembly language than command line syntax. Thank goodness for MacPorts. SR
On Jun 29, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Steven Rogers wrote:
Yeah - I know that, but SQL Fairy is written in Perl, and I don't really understand what's needed to make it build. I finally got it to work using CPAN, which was a nightmare involving typing in commands that look more like assembly language than command line syntax. Thank goodness for MacPorts.
it shouldn't be that hard, if all you need is a load of perl dependencies to be met. Is CPAN really that hairy? It's no more cryptic than perl itself ;-) -- Paul Beard words: http://paulbeard.org/wordpress pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdb206/ Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?
On 6/28/07, Steven Rogers <srogers1@austin.rr.com> wrote:
Is there any interest in creating a MacPort of this project? http:// sqlfairy.sourceforge.net/
I don't know perl well enough to know what's involved.
A better question would be, what does it do that SQLClient (in ports) or CocoaMySQL don't? I'd be wary of too much duplication of functions. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <paulbeard@gmail.com/paulbeard@mac.com>
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