fox 1.2.13

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 9, 2007, at 18:30, Luc Lefebvre wrote:

> I have run into difficulties in instaling fox (goal is to install  
> freeride).  I have MacPorts/Darwinports 1.320 installed.  When I  
> try to install fox I get:
>
> sudo port install fox
> --->  Fetching fox
> --->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://www.fox- 
> toolkit.org/ftp/
> --->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> od.opendarwin.org/fox
> --->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> msn.opendarwin.org/fox
> --->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> bay13.opendarwin.org/fox
> --->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> od.opendarwin.org/
> --->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> msn.opendarwin.org/
> --->  Attempting to fetch fox-1.2.13.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> bay13.opendarwin.org/
> Error: Target com.apple.fetch returned: fetch failed
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
> When I check the fox ftp site (http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ftp/) I  
> note that fox 1.2.13 is not listed (1.2.18 is though).  Does this  
> mean that if the porfile were to be updated to require 1.2.18 that  
> all would work (I suspect that there are only minor bugfixes  
> between the 2 versions) unless 1.2.13 was  a typo and 1.2.18 was  
> the version intended all along.

It's not a typo. The port was deliberately upgraded to 1.2.13 on  
2005-01-31, but the port hasn't really been touched since then.

Why don't you try upgrading the port to 1.2.18 on your local machine.  
("port edit fox") If it works, then provide us with a patch that a  
committer can commit.


> I have tried posting to bugreports and emailing the maintainer but  
> haven't had much success yet.  Any advice as to what I can/should  
> do woud be much appreciated.