pypi2port: two files with the same content

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Thu Feb 19 13:35:33 PST 2015


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> So I have two suggestions:
>> - It would be great to create a Portfile, so that "port install
>> pypi2port" would automatically install the script to $prefix/bin,
>> similar to cpan2port.
>> - It would be nice (but not absolutely necessary) to support Python 3.
>
> Hi Mojca,
>
> Thank you for your interest in pypi2port. Both or your suggestions were part of the roadmap but we ran out of time.
>
> How would we handle the distfiles and versioning for a pypi2port Portfile?

See what cpan2port does:
    https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/cpan2port/Portfile

But if you really want the distfiles, here are a few starting points ;)
    https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#fetchtypes
    https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16373

> I believe we should also add a license blurb to the top of the pypi2port.py file, do you know of a MacPorts approved license text?

I leave that to others.

Mojca


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