Re: MacPorts and Summer of Code

2007-03-02 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 2, 2007, at 01:10, Cédric Luthi wrote: On 1 mars 07, at 23:57, Eric Hall wrote: One very useful thing I can think of is getting dependencies to support variants - i.e. port 1 need 'port 2 +variantA'. And also versions: port 1 need 'port 2 @2.6.27' Obviously, port 2 @2.6.28 wo

Re: MacPorts and Summer of Code

2007-03-02 Thread Arno Hautala
On 2007/03/02, at 03:30, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Citando Arno Hautala : What kind of projects do you have in mind for the Summer of Code people to take on? Another task could be to identify outdated ports, those that have recent source available but the Portfiles have not been updated. Some s

Re: [22479] trunk/dports/PortIndex

2007-03-02 Thread Blair Zajac
Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote: WOW. So, that 4.1MB e-mail never needs to happen again. Can we put a filter on the outgoing SVN e-mails? That's why I subscribe to the RSS commit feed :) http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/timeline?milestone=on&changeset=on&wiki=on&max=50&daysback=90&f

Re: [22479] trunk/dports/PortIndex

2007-03-02 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I don't think that this is a problem which is likely to happen often enough that we need to engineer a solution. Also, emails are getting bigger and multi-megabyte ones aren't all that common. Ditch your modem and get a DSL/cablemodem connection like everybody else. :) - Jordan On Mar 2

Re: [22479] trunk/dports/PortIndex

2007-03-02 Thread Salvatore Domenick Desiano
WOW. So, that 4.1MB e-mail never needs to happen again. Can we put a filter on the outgoing SVN e-mails? -- Sal smile. -- Salvatore Domenick Desiano Doctoral Candidate Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University ___

Re: Spring-cleaning @opendarwin.org addresses

2007-03-02 Thread Weissmann Markus
Great job, thanks Elias! This of course means that there are a lot of poor orphaned ports now, which means a great opportunity to take maintainership of your favorite port and also - if you're not yet a developer - your chance to get involved in MacPorts... :) salut, -Markus On 02.03.2

Re: MacPorts and Summer of Code - first steps

2007-03-02 Thread Anant Narayanan
> Approaching google is also something that shouldn't be done ad-hoc by a > number of people all claiming to represent macports in some way. > Someone wearing the portmgr mantle needs to collect all these ideas, get > some democratic input as to which ideas are truly the best, then > approach goog

MacPorts and Summer of Code - first steps

2007-03-02 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
First, I think this is a great idea and thanks go to whomever suggested it - MacPorts is full of the sorts of projects that summer- of-coders could do in the time allotted. Second, before google is even approached I think the project needs to pull a wish-list together and demonstrate that it

Re: MacPorts and Summer of Code

2007-03-02 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Arno Hautala : > >What kind of projects do you have in mind for the Summer of Code > >people > >to take on? > > Another task could be to identify outdated ports, those that have > recent source available but the Portfiles have not been updated. > Some sources might lend themselves to a