Re: Identifying possible situations for interactivity
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Michael wrote: [ ... ] I am looking at you, ffmpeg, reported multiple times. I am glad that I am not the only one suffering from this irritation. Yes, I am a newbie here, with dreams of becoming a "real" developer in my retirement (I've been a Unix programmer for over 40 years), but I simply cannot afford anything more than this ancient late-2009 MacBook right now. -- Dave
Re: SOS!
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, William Parducci wrote: I am guessing by the urgency of your request you do not have a backup. I'm gonna go all Darwinistic here (pun not intended) but after being in the computer game since 1970 or so, anyone who does not take (and test[*]) backups deserves all that they get. [*] I got caught badly when assiduously taking daily backups (not on a Mac), a disk crash was a poor time to discover that some were corrupted in such a way that although the files themselves were visible, their parent directories weren't; I still have no idea how that happened, but I stopped using that PoS years ago. -- Dave
Re: "size" documentation
On Sun, 19 Aug 2018, Ryan Schmidt wrote: If the idea is to help display a progress bar (please make it in color), What color would you like? :) Do we really need unnecessary colour? I've been using computers since about 1971, and mono sems to work just fine. -- Dave
Re: Homebrew hacked
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, Perry E. Metzger wrote: BTW, in addition to these sorts of infrastructure issues, it might be a good idea if we were more expeditious and systematic about updating ports with known security holes. We might want a security officer role, too. Which FreeBSD has had for years (several peoole have been in that role), as has OpenBSD (don't know about NetBSD; I have an image, but never used it in anger as such). Good heavens, but is the Mac the only system that people use here? -- Dave
Upgrade to 2.4.3 OK
I've been a bit of a critic of MacPorts in the past, so let me say that the upgrade to 2.4.3 this morning went without a hitch! My thanks go to all those involved. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
Re: New guide section on Git and GitHub
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Mojca Miklavec wrote: p5-tkx has recently beed added to ports and that one supports native look and feel :) Now you really have me interested - thanks! I've just spent a few hours tracking down an obscure (and intermittent!) bug in a script that controls a serial device only to find that it's a firmware bug, and I don't think that there's a way around it once it gets into that state without power-cycling the thing :-( I'll fix the fundamntals before I get the flashy stuff working, of course... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
Re: New guide section on Git and GitHub
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Andrew Moore wrote: Okay, so when all is said and done, am I actually prepared to make an actual contribution? Perhaps it merits a topic of discussion for the online meeting how MacPorts wants to present itself. I’d like to see one of MacPorts’s goals be towards non-profit status, and ultimately to attract the attention of Apple again. Apple needs MacPorts desperately, they just don’t know it yet… Having (re)discovered Perl/Tk I'm certainly interested in jazzing up a few of my programs, but there's something about GitHub that bothers me (and I don't know what); perhaps it's my general dislike of Penguin/OS and anything spawned from it (including the GPL virus), I dunno... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
Re: Search for a MacPorts Mascot: looking for talented artists
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Arno Hautala wrote: https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g32810-i36315229-Oakland_California.html I nominate "Portia McCrane - the MacPorts Port Crane". She'll be on shelves in time for the holidays and the hit plush toy craze of the season! Please take careful note of the copyright notice for that image. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
Re: Search for a MacPorts Mascot: looking for talented artists
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Mojca Miklavec wrote: During the GSOC meeting in Mountain View we had some fruitful evening discussions where we were heavily criticised for not having our own happy fluffy animal mascot (like a flying platypus?) which we could take to every meeting or hacking event where we show up. A fluffy animal mascot is required in order to be taken seriously? Leave that sort of nonsense to the Penguins... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
