Re: Determine before installation whether a port can be installed

2016-08-04 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:21:56AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > However, as I've said, there are other reasons why a port might not be > able to install. Should we really modify MacPorts base and create new > variables to accommodate each of those reasons? Is there a specific > objection to wh

Re: [150874] trunk/dports/lang/python32

2016-08-04 Thread Clemens Lang
FWIW, I agree with Lawrence here. I think we should improve our patch naming, especially since it doesn't really matter *where* a patch comes from, either. Why do we really need to know whether a patch-*.diff file comes from MacPorts when compared to a different patch? We should be judging patches