Re: What to do with old versions of Python, Perl, PHP, Apache1 (and others)?

2016-02-04 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
On 02/04/2016 03:32 PM, Joshua Root wrote: >> The question is: what should be the general policy with these ports? >> How long should we keep them around? > > As long as they still build on some OS X version that base works on. If > they break and nobody steps up to fix them, that's a pretty good

Re: What to do with old versions of Python, Perl, PHP, Apache1 (and others)?

2016-02-04 Thread Mark Anderson
I vote for killing a lot of them. Apache 1 for instance is a very bad thing to be running right now. If they are EOL upstream, keeping them around is also a bit of false hope to people that might need them. I know I for one could not fix some of these builds since I don't have old enough OSes, and

launchd plist -- userid, home directory

2016-02-04 Thread Craig Treleaven
Hi: I was looking at modifying the buildbot / buildbot-slave ports to include a sample launchd plist. I would like to be able to default the UserName and WorkingDirectory keys for the userid that is installing the port. UserName @someusername@ WorkingDirectory /Users/@someusername@/buildarea

What to do with old versions of Python, Perl, PHP, Apache1 (and others)?

2016-02-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, We have removed modules for old versions of Python and Perl, but there are still many of these ports present: - python24 - python25 (May 2011) - python26 (Oct 2013) - python27 (latest) - (no python30) - python31 - python32 - python33 - python34 - python35 (latest) (for Python it's not

Re: launchd plist -- userid, home directory

2016-02-04 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2016-02-04 15:15, Craig Treleaven wrote: > I was looking at modifying the buildbot / buildbot-slave ports to include a > sample launchd plist. I would like to be able to default the UserName and > WorkingDirectory keys for the userid that is installing the port. > > UserName >

Re: launchd plist -- userid, home directory

2016-02-04 Thread Craig Treleaven
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > > On 2016-02-04 15:15, Craig Treleaven wrote: >> I was looking at modifying the buildbot / buildbot-slave ports to include a >> sample launchd plist. I would like to be able to default the UserName and >>

Re: What to do with old versions of Python, Perl, PHP, Apache1 (and others)?

2016-02-04 Thread Joshua Root
On 2016-2-5 03:52 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > (for Python it's not entirely clear which ones are EOL) Search for "Release Schedule" in the list of PEPs: 2.6 is no longer getting any updates at all. 2.7 is being maintained with bug fixes until 2020 and possibly