Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Mar 11, 2009, at 9:11 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: If the only benefit is keeping older applications running even when newer libs change the ABI or API and the older application can't be updated to use the new lib, then I don't see how the extra complication of having every version around

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: or port foo could just statically link to version X of the library and port blah can statically (or dynamically) link to version Y. (the build process for port foo could even build the old version X lib). That wouldn't work as a general

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: More to the point, there are already scenarios today (and far more in FreeBSD's ports collection, where the efforts to address this have taken on an increasingly desperate and hacky natu

Re: [47962] trunk/dports/net

2009-03-11 Thread Uwe Schwartz
Okay, I am going to fix that. I think, I can supply a patch tomorrow. Regards, Uwe On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 11, 2009, at 13:48, s...@macports.org wrote: > > Revision: 47962 >> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/47962 >> Author: s...@macports.org

Re: [47969] trunk/dports/graphics/jpeg/Portfile

2009-03-11 Thread Joshua Root
Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2009, at 16:29, mcalh...@macports.org wrote: > >> Revision: 47969 >> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/47969 >> Author: mcalh...@macports.org >> Date: 2009-03-11 14:29:23 -0700 (Wed, 11 Mar 2009) >> Log Message: >> --- >> jpeg: Prevent l

Re: [47969] trunk/dports/graphics/jpeg/Portfile

2009-03-11 Thread Marcus Calhoun-Lopez
Ryan Schmidt writes: > > > + > > +# Reorder link flags so that so that local -L options come > > first (especially before -L${prefix}/lib) > > +# (see http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16411). > > +reinplace "s|\\(.*\\)\\(\$(LDFLAGS)\\)\\(.*\\)\\(\$(LDLIBS)\\)\ > > \(.*\\)|\\1\\4

Re: [47969] trunk/dports/graphics/jpeg/Portfile

2009-03-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 11, 2009, at 16:29, mcalh...@macports.org wrote: Revision: 47969 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/47969 Author: mcalh...@macports.org Date: 2009-03-11 14:29:23 -0700 (Wed, 11 Mar 2009) Log Message: --- jpeg: Prevent linker from finding wrong library and header f

Re: [47962] trunk/dports/net

2009-03-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 11, 2009, at 13:48, s...@macports.org wrote: Revision: 47962 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/47962 Author: s...@macports.org Date: 2009-03-11 11:48:05 -0700 (Wed, 11 Mar 2009) Log Message: --- created argus-clients, ticket #18792 [snip] +default_variants +gr

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: More to the point, there are already scenarios today (and far more in FreeBSD's ports collection, where the efforts to address this have taken on an increasingly desperate and hacky nature) where you simply cannot have two desired ports i

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
Sounds like a good time to get sqlite support running. +1 This is a much more manageable task that will have tangible benefits. Although it'd probably be rolled into something else, because I don't think it's a whole summer's worth of work - probably a week for a sufficiently motivated individu

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Toby Peterson
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 13:06, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > Sounds like a good time to get sqlite support running. +1 This is a much more manageable task that will have tangible benefits. Although it'd probably be rolled into something else, because I don't think it's a whole summer's worth of work

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Joshua Root
Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >>> This project of course requires the ability to depend on specific >>> version ranges of ports (being able to exclude both too old and too >>> new), and likewise with variants. There would also need to be a way to >>> manage rebuilds when existing software would work with

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Joshua Root
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > >> This was one of Jordan's crazy ideas IIRC, and there's a reason it's >> classified as very challenging. The idea, as I understand it, is that >> you wouldn't be able to uninstall the old version when something is >>

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
This project of course requires the ability to depend on specific version ranges of ports (being able to exclude both too old and too new), and likewise with variants. There would also need to be a way to manage rebuilds when existing software would work with a newer version, and you want to

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Joshua Root wrote: This was one of Jordan's crazy ideas IIRC, and there's a reason it's classified as very challenging. The idea, as I understand it, is that you wouldn't be able to uninstall the old version when something is linked against it. Correct, though I d

Re: Trac Features

2009-03-11 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Mar 10, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Is it possible that we can implement a "download all" option for tickets? I know it's a minority to find a port with 13 files involved, but often enough there is at least 1 additional file. Having to click through and download each on

Re: perl5.8 fixup

2009-03-11 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Mar 11, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Eric Hall wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:29:35AM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Eric Hall wrote: [snip] I've attached a set of patches to: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12950#comment:14 for testing.

Re: perl5.8 fixup

2009-03-11 Thread Eric Hall
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:29:35AM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Eric Hall wrote: > > >[snip] > > > > I've attached a set of patches to: > > > > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12950#comment:14 > > > > for testing. So far so good for me. > > I'm t

Re: perl5.8 fixup

2009-03-11 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Eric Hall wrote: [snip] I've attached a set of patches to: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12950#comment:14 for testing. So far so good for me. I'm testing your patches now. Small point. Looks like you want to change the patchfile name

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Rainer Müller
Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > How familiar are they with the languages we use in MacPorts? Okay, that would be: * How much experience do you have with Tcl and C? In my opinion, having experience with Tcl is a weak criterion. There is the community bonding period (about 4 weeks) during which students

Re: perl5.8 fixup

2009-03-11 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Eric Hall wrote: [snip] I've attached a set of patches to: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12950#comment:14 for testing. So far so good for me. Is anyone else having difficulty

Re: perl5.8 fixup

2009-03-11 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Eric Hall wrote: [snip] I've attached a set of patches to: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12950#comment:14 for testing. So far so good for me. Is anyone else having difficulty downloading these patches? http://trac.macports.org/attach

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Rainer Müller
Rainer Müller wrote: > MacPorts will apply to be one of the mentoring organizations. The > students can propose their project ideas to us and we will choose the > most appealing applications. For the students application, I added the following additional questions to be required: * What are you

Re: [MacPorts] #16372: version update request psycopg2 2.0.5.1 --> 2.0.7x

2009-03-11 Thread Rainer Müller
MacPorts wrote: > #16372: version update request psycopg2 2.0.5.1 --> 2.0.7x > +--- > Reporter: jbus...@… | Owner: land...@… > Type: enhancement | Status: new

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Joshua Root
Rainer Müller wrote: > Rainer Müller wrote: >> Also, if you have a specific idea what could be improved in MacPorts, >> but you never had the time to do it yourself, please put a proposal on >> our ideas page. I already cleared up the list from the last year and >> there are still interesting and i

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

2009-03-11 Thread Rainer Müller
Rainer Müller wrote: > Also, if you have a specific idea what could be improved in MacPorts, > but you never had the time to do it yourself, please put a proposal on > our ideas page. I already cleared up the list from the last year and > there are still interesting and important projects on it. An