On 16/10/09, Ken Cunningham wrote:
On 2016-10-09, at 6:53 AM, Marcel Bischoff wrote:
there appear to be quite specific views on how everthing here needs to be
This is true, and it doesn't take long to notice -- but over 20,000 ports hang
tight together and almost all of them work al
Hi all.
As Ryan has identified that the online documentation needs work, I'm
hereby volunteering to give it a go. Since there appear to be quite
specific views on how everthing here needs to be, I'm asking in advance:
- Is that in everyone's interest?
- Is there already someone working on it?
On 16/10/08, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Marcel Bischoff
wrote:
I for one don't understand why one would carry around all that baggage
anyhow. Why not leave the old Trac as is and start fresh with a simple,
reduced issue tracker
When the simple reduced track
On 16/10/08, Chris Jones wrote:
On 8 Oct 2016, at 11:29 am, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Oct 7, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Christopher Jones wrote:
On 7 Oct 2016, at 8:12 pm, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Oct 7, 2016, at 1:40 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
On Oct 7, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Chris Jones wrote
On 16/10/08, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Oct 8, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Marcel Bischoff wrote:
On 16/10/08, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Requests for new ports could still be valid after years. This list could
be helpful for newcomers that want to create new ports.
Totally agree - but I'd close every
On 16/10/08, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Requests for new ports could still be valid after years. This list could
be helpful for newcomers that want to create new ports.
Totally agree - but I'd close everything over six months old or something like that for
optics. People can still search to "close
On 16/10/07, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
the cool kids also aren't writing 'tcl' these days ...
...but the way they write anything else, they might as well be writing
fortran...
Let me just chime in here and say that those kinds of attitude
On 16/10/07, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Chris Jones
wrote:
On 07/10/16 17:39, Craig Treleaven wrote:
On Oct 7, 2016, at 12:16 PM, Sterling Smith
wrote:
On Oct 7, 2016, at 7:20AM, Chris Jones wrote:
My point still stands though, you have to actively try the t
On 16/10/07, Guido Soranzio wrote:
[...]
I really hope that the migration of MacPorts to GitHub will trigger a
collaboration between the two communities at last.
That would be swell, indeed. Although I can't shake the feeling that it
could be a clash of cultures. Kind of like old school coders
On 16/10/07, Ken Cunningham wrote:
And there are "requests for ports" ( I think this means new requests
for ports that don’t presently exist, mostly) that go back 11 years.
Port submissions that go back the same length of time. Possibly some
kind of massive clean-out of the old, dead, never-will-
On 16/10/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
While the latter examples are just minor differences, especially
things
like ghc, fontforge an pandoc are either completely broken and/or
severely outdated. I'm not trying to badmouth anyone or anything, just
pointing to the higher (successful) update rate in Home
On 16/10/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
After all, MacPorts maintainers are just some people devoting their
free
time to writing Portfiles. Sometimes other stuff in life stops them from
responding to tickets or addressing certain issues.
This is a given. Open source projects are mostly staffed by unpa
On 16/10/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
It looks like others have already responded to most of your points, but I would
just add:
On Oct 6, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Marcel Bischoff wrote:
But if I still
cannot install (for example) pandoc because ghc still requires llwm-3.5
which does not compile on
On 16/10/06, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
[...]
If installing software by hand
results in more current and more secure software for my development
machine, I don't get the point of using MacPorts in the first place.
MacPorts provides a way to save the 'recipe' for installing software (and a
handy way
On 16/10/06, Rainer Müller wrote:
Hello Marcel,
On 2016-10-06 19:12, Marcel Bischoff wrote:
I was advised that I should ask my questions and raise my issues here.
I'm currently considering dropping the use of MacPorts altogether as
this projects' track record regarding critical
Oct 6, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Marcel Bischoff
wrote:
Hi all,
I was advised that I should ask my questions and raise my issues here.
I'm currently considering dropping the use of MacPorts altogether as
this projects' track record regarding critical updates of major software
tool
Hi all,
I was advised that I should ask my questions and raise my issues here.
I'm currently considering dropping the use of MacPorts altogether as
this projects' track record regarding critical updates of major software
tools is rather underwhelming. Furthermore, I'm asking myself what use
it i
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