Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On May 21, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: On May 21, 2009, at 7:39 AM, David Osguthorpe wrote: I really get concerned when I see statements like this - so much that I start thinking maybe forking macports to eg. linuxports is needed - or maybe back to darwinports Which wou

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: We've had this debate before, and it always seems to boil down to "Hey, let's rip the non-MacOSX stuff out. We're MacPorts, not *Ports!" "No no, I had some Linux support working last year, even though it hasn't been maintained at all and only 10 ports actually w

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 21, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: That's truly an unfounded assertion. MacPorts has put considerable time and effort into supporting Tiger, Leopard and even SnowLeopard well in advance of its release. If you check your calendar, you'll also notice that Tiger was release

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On May 21, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Walt Pawley wrote: I have basically quit attempting to use Macports, though I still pay some attention to the list. Long ago it became obvious to me that Macports was more about surfing the bleeding edge than about developing and maintaining useful software ... D

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On May 21, 2009, at 7:39 AM, David Osguthorpe wrote: I really get concerned when I see statements like this - so much that I start thinking maybe forking macports to eg. linuxports is needed - or maybe back to darwinports Which would gain you ... ? We've had this debate before, and it al

Re: [50797] trunk/dports/gnome/gnome-platform-suite/Portfile

2009-05-21 Thread David Evans
ryandes...@macports.org wrote: Revision 50797 Author ryandes...@macports.org Date 2009-05-09 13:40:52 -0700 (Sat, 09 May 2009) Log Message gnome-platform-suite: * allow pango-devel to satisfy pango dependency * pkgconfig is a bui

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Walt Pawley
Not that my opinion matters, but here it is anyway. I have basically quit attempting to use Macports, though I still pay some attention to the list. Long ago it became obvious to me that Macports was more about surfing the bleeding edge than about developing and maintaining useful software ... muc

Re: Gettext only at build time

2009-05-21 Thread David Evans
Ryan Schmidt wrote: On May 21, 2009, at 02:26, dev...@macports.org wrote: +depends_build port:pkgconfig \ +port:intltool \ +port:gettext \ +port:p5-xml-parser \ +port:gtk-doc I've seen other ports list gett

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
David Osguthorpe wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:43:19AM -0600, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: You should also drop bugfixing for anything not macosx (linux, bsd, puredarwin). Jordan's plan would mean you can remove a lot of code from base: why are there different gcc default, different x11prefix?

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On May 21, 2009, at 7:39 AM, David Osguthorpe wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:43:19AM -0600, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: You should also drop bugfixing for anything not macosx (linux, bsd, puredarwin). Jordan's plan would mean you can remove a lot of code from base: why are there different g

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread David Osguthorpe
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:43:19AM -0600, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: > > > You should also drop bugfixing for anything not macosx (linux, bsd, > puredarwin). Jordan's plan would mean you can remove a lot of code from > base: why are there different gcc default, different x11prefix? Why > should you c

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Joshua Root
On 2009-5-21 19:43, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: > The problem with panther is that it doesn't have svn, so building from > source is quite difficult. We do provide source tarballs for each release. - Josh ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.maco

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Joshua Root : > > Panther has been unsupported since 1.6.0 (as per the 2-latest-releases > policy), and we're basically just continuing to provide dmgs for it > because someone happens to have an machine with it installed and 1.7.1 > still builds there without any special coercion. If this

Gettext only at build time (was: [51224] trunk/dports/gnome/gdl/Portfile

2009-05-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 21, 2009, at 02:26, dev...@macports.org wrote: +depends_build port:pkgconfig \ +port:intltool \ +port:gettext \ +port:p5-xml-parser \ +port:gtk-doc I've seen other ports list gettext as a build depend

Re: Ports Future [was Re: Panther tickets]

2009-05-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: If it were me calling the shots, and it's not, what I'd probably do is fork the entire macports tree with a -legacy branch, the purpose for which is defined as "everything from Panther back to Cheetah, if people really want", and leave -trunk advancing along with a

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Joshua Root
On 2009-5-21 12:39, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > For MacPorts on 10.3, without some major changes to base either in redoing > some of the GSoC privileges code or bringing in an implementation of lchown, > MacPorts trunk/1.8 isn't going to even build on 10.3. With 10.6 looming and > MacPorts' continual

Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: This is the second time you've closed this ticket for the sole reason that the problem occurs only on Panther. I previously reopened this ticket explaining that's not a good reason for closing. You've closed other tickets for the same reason. Up to now, we have not had