On 28/06/2007, at 8:15 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jun 26, 2007, at 17:42, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:14:15 -0500 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jun 21, 2007, at 23:27, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
I'd like to try the latest bluefish releases. How do I do that with
MacPorts?
There is no "unstable" tree in MacPorts as there is in some other
package managers. MacPorts only has a single tree.
Development/unstable versions of some ports are available though the
use of separate ports whose names end with -devel. However, no port
"bluefish-unstable" appears to exist at present. You could create
one...
What are the requirements. I don't have any C skills. Is there are
web site that documents the process?
Portfiles are written in Tcl, though I didn't know Tcl very well when
I started and it's very easy to learn. It's a lot more like writing a
configuration file or a shell script than writing C code.
The documentation is out of date and currently only available in the
Internet archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060427120406/darwinports.opendarwin.org/
docs/
Some other scattered notes are available in the wiki:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki
See also the various manpages (type "man portfile" in the Terminal,
for example).
The best thing to do is look at existing portfiles and see how they do
things (type "port edit mysql5-devel" for example). Especially compare
the -devel and non-devel versions of ports where both exist (like
mysql5 and mysql5-devel, mutt and mutt-devel, rsync and rsync-devel,
etc.). Type "port search devel" to see 'em all.
And again, I made a typo in my message from the 22nd: I wrote
"bluefish-unstable" but I meant to write "bluefish-devel".
thanks Ryan, I'm printing those instructions out now.
malcolm
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