Re: Determine before installation whether a port can be installed

2016-07-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Jul 28, 2016, at 8:36 AM, m...@macports.org wrote: > > >> On Jul 27, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> Your suggestion seems like a variation of my "third possibility", which has >> the disadvantages that every new reason why a port might not be installable >> would need a new

Re: Determine before installation whether a port can be installed

2016-07-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 28, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote: > OK -- So - I am absolutely nobody at all on this list, so please take this > following idea gently. > > This work you're embarking on (specifying what systems a given port will > build on, and which it won't) would seem in fact to be very si

Re: Determine before installation whether a port can be installed

2016-07-28 Thread Ken Cunningham
OK -- So - I am absolutely nobody at all on this list, so please take this following idea gently. This work you're embarking on (specifying what systems a given port will build on, and which it won't) would seem in fact to be very similar to what I was getting at when I asked about the 'distrib

Re: Determine before installation whether a port can be installed

2016-07-28 Thread mf2k
> On Jul 27, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > Your suggestion seems like a variation of my "third possibility", which has > the disadvantages that every new reason why a port might not be installable > would need a new variable introduced in MacPorts base and a new release of > MacPo

Sound Fonts

2016-07-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, This is mostly meant for Davide who is a maintainer for Frescobaldi[-devel], but I wanted to raise the topic on this mailing list. Today I noticed this: > port notes frescobaldi-devel frescobaldi-devel has the following notes: You may want to install FluidSynth and obtain a SoundFont in or

Re: Determine before installation whether a port can be installed

2016-07-28 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2016-07-28 09:06, Artur Szostak wrote: > This sounds like there is a need to allow encoding of version ranges. In > which case I would suggest to solve this problem generically, to allow > encoding version ranges in port dependencies also. Similar to what is > possible with RPMs or Debian pac

Re: Determine before installation whether a port can be installed

2016-07-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 27, 2016, at 8:24 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote: > On Jul 27, 2016, at 12:09 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> I would like MacPorts to be extended so that it can be determined in >> advance, from the command line, before running "port install", whether a >> port can be installed (barring unexpe

Re: Determine before installation whether a port can be installed

2016-07-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 28, 2016, at 2:06 AM, Artur Szostak wrote: > "... A better implementation would let the port indicate that a port builds > on macOS 10.X or older, or macOS 10.Y or newer. ..." > > This sounds like there is a need to allow encoding of version ranges. Right, *if* we make a MacPorts base f

RE: Determine before installation whether a port can be installed

2016-07-28 Thread Artur Szostak
"... A better implementation would let the port indicate that a port builds on macOS 10.X or older, or macOS 10.Y or newer. ..." This sounds like there is a need to allow encoding of version ranges. In which case I would suggest to solve this problem generically, to allow encoding version range