Re: PR usage by people with commit access

2016-11-04 Thread Sterling Smith
On Nov 4, 2016, at 10:50AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2016-11-04 18:10, Ivan Larionov wrote: > >> * Ability to get a feedback / review from other project members. >> >> We use private github setup on my work and we have a rule that you >> shouldn't commit directly to master in a project with m

Re: rsync not being kept up to date?

2016-11-04 Thread Sterling Smith
On Nov 4, 2016, at 9:39AM, Adam Mercer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> What does this port contain? Does it download 2GB of data and repackage it? >> Does it generate 2GB of data? > > It contains the output of numerical relativity simulations that > routine

Re: How to keep uncommitted work in a git clone

2016-11-03 Thread Sterling Smith
On Nov 3, 2016, at 7:54PM, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> Well, I tried that. I git stashed, then made changes to curl and committed >> them, and later when I tried to git stash pop, my other changes that I had >> in my git clone were not rest

Re: Pull Requests for Work in Progress (WIP)

2016-11-03 Thread Sterling Smith
On Nov 3, 2016, at 10:47AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2016-11-03 17:49, Sterling Smith wrote: >> The main question of procedure is: Should the main macports repo be >> used for proposing review of work in progress via pull requests? If >> not, what is the proposed metho

Pull Requests for Work in Progress (WIP)

2016-11-03 Thread Sterling Smith
Devs, This thread is meant to continue comments starting with https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/7#issuecomment-258057083 The main question of procedure is: Should the main macports repo be used for proposing review of work in progress via pull requests? If not, what is the propo

Re: Properly merging pull requests

2016-11-03 Thread Sterling Smith
On Nov 3, 2016, at 8:59AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hi, > > We have recently experienced problems with pull requests showing up as > rejected on the web interface rather than merged (while the changes > were in fact accepted, possibly with some modifications). > > I admit my sins. In one case

Re: Working with Git

2016-11-02 Thread Sterling Smith
> > Now I still seem to have this branch in my local git repo: > > $ git branch > l2dy-curl-ca-bundle-update > * master > > Can I delete it? With, I presume, "git branch -d l2dy-curl-ca-bundle-update"? Yes, you can delete it with the command you show (unless it complains that it is not merge

Re: Proposal for a MacPorts'ish commit message template

2016-11-01 Thread Sterling Smith
To answer myself, according to https://git-scm.com/book/tr/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration the answer is yes, there is still the commented git status. -Sterling On Nov 1, 2016, at 3:56PM, Sterling Smith wrote: > Remind me, would using this template still give the commented git sta

Re: Proposal for a MacPorts'ish commit message template

2016-11-01 Thread Sterling Smith
Remind me, would using this template still give the commented git status (which is the default)? -Sterling On Nov 1, 2016, at 3:51PM, Marko Käning wrote: > Hi MacPorts’ GitHubians, > > I know that many of you weren't in favour of a commit message template, > but I propose one anyway, which I

Ticket review request

2016-10-10 Thread Sterling Smith
MacPorts Committers, Please review/test/commit https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47941. Thanks, Sterling PS Looking forward to GitHub Pull Requests... ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/l

Re: Working with Git

2016-10-07 Thread Sterling Smith
On Oct 7, 2016, at 2:20PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Davide Liessi wrote: > On the other hand there is nothing wrong in rewriting history in a > temporary development branch (such as a branch for a pull request) > before merging to a long living branch. > > as

Re: Working with Git

2016-10-07 Thread Sterling Smith
On Oct 7, 2016, at 7:20AM, Chris Jones wrote: > > My point still stands though, you have to actively try the things you need to > do, to get used to them. +1 > ___ > macports-dev mailing list > macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosfo

Re: Working with Git

2016-10-06 Thread Sterling Smith
On Oct 6, 2016, at 10:58AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2016-10-06 09:33, Sterling Smith wrote: >> On Oct 5, 2016, at 7:53PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> Suppose a user submits an update to a port. >>> >>> With Subversion, the user would submit a patch

Re: Working with Git

2016-10-06 Thread Sterling Smith
On Oct 6, 2016, at 1:22AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Oct 6, 2016, at 02:33, Sterling Smith wrote: >> >> Ryan, >> >>> On Oct 5, 2016, at 7:53PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> >>> The user will submit a pull request. How do I test it

Re: Working with Git

2016-10-06 Thread Sterling Smith
Ryan, On Oct 5, 2016, at 7:53PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Suppose a user submits an update to a port. > > With Subversion, the user would submit a patch in a Trac ticket. To test it, > I would download the patch and apply it to my local Subversion working copy. > If I like it, I commit it. If I

Re: [MacPorts] WorkingWithGit modified

2016-09-23 Thread Sterling Smith
Clemens, On Sep 23, 2016, at 12:14PM, Clemens Lang wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:56:19AM -0700, Sterling Smith wrote: >> Being a co-maintainer of a software project hosted on GitHub, where >> the main developer does not use branches leads to inconsis

Re: [MacPorts] WorkingWithGit modified

2016-09-23 Thread Sterling Smith
Whether to delete the branch depends largely on how the branch was merged into master. If it was merged as a regular merge (with a merge commit), then there is no reason to delete the branch, as a new pull request on the same branch (after adding some new commits) will only show any new commits

Re: How to discontinue ports completely (py26 deprecation) ...

2016-08-10 Thread Sterling Smith
Petr, I am all in favor of removing cruft. However, would it be worthwhile to ping the user email list about the ports that will be deprecated (give a specific list), to see if anyone will complain, or is it better to just remove them, and then when someone complains tell them how to go back t

Re: snapd

2016-06-17 Thread Sterling Smith
As long as we are on the topic of other package managers, about a year ago I switched to conda (http://conda.pydata.org/docs/intro.html) on linux for managing python and underlying c/fortran dependencies. I wondered if any MacPorts developers had pursued conda on Mac with any success. There is

Re: PortGroup python 1.0 guidance

2016-06-17 Thread Sterling Smith
Ed, Could it make sense to divide up the project into a python part, and a non-python part as two ports? Just a thought. -Sterling On Jun 17, 2016, at 12:44PM, Edward Maros wrote: > I am working on a project that provides an interfaces to several > scripting languages. One of these is Python

Re: install from local repository

2016-04-25 Thread Sterling Smith
Where is your local port repository? What are its permissions (and permissions of its parent directories)? -Sterling On Apr 23, 2016, at 5:30PM, Abdulrahman Alshammari wrote: > Hey, > I have tried to install the software from my local repository. After I type > portindex and it successfully p

Re: local Portfile Repository

2016-04-07 Thread Sterling Smith
Abdul, Please show the mailing list the exact commands you have already tried. -Sterling On Apr 7, 2016, at 7:15PM, Abdulrahman Alshammari wrote: > Hey, > > Setting to make a local portfile is explained very well in the documentation. > However, when I want to update the portfile to insert t

Re: WP-CLI

2016-02-22 Thread Sterling Smith
I suspect someone will ask you to open a ticket for this, which is the usual method for asking for a new port. -Sterling On Feb 22, 2016, at 1:00AM, Takeshi Enomoto wrote: > Hi, > > I created a Portfile for WP-CLI, > which is very useful installing and managing WordPress sites. > >

Re: reduce emacs dependency

2016-01-29 Thread Sterling Smith
Is there a common library or binary that could be specified as a library, path, or bin dependency https://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.dependencies.html -Sterling On Jan 28, 2016, at 8:50PM, Mark Brethen wrote: > I have a dependency on the emacs-app for the reduce-addons subport. It is

Re: Survey: How do you commit?

2016-01-04 Thread Sterling Smith
I would be more likely to request commit privileges if there were a git option. Maybe I need to look into the git clone with git-svn method. -Sterling On Jan 1, 2016, at 9:43PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Quick survey for committers: > > How do you commit to the MacPorts Subversion repository? >

Re: calling 'snc' and 'sharky'

2015-11-24 Thread Sterling Smith
See https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsDevelopers -Sterling On Nov 24, 2015, at 2:49PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm looking for the real identities hiding behind snc and sharky > (@macports.org). They provided a patch for KDE's kdeinit which I intend to > get incorporated up

Re: platform

2015-10-28 Thread Sterling Smith
On Oct 28, 2015, at 2:13PM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2015-10-29 06:02 , David Strubbe wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Can someone explain what the meaning of the possible values of the >> 'platforms' variable are in a Portfile? Most ports seem to list 'darwin' >> but I have seen some that say 'macosx' or

Re: size of distfile mirror?

2015-08-19 Thread Sterling Smith
Monotonically growing as well… :-) On Aug 19, 2015, at 7:10PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote: > Distfiles are monotonously growing. ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev

Re: Local portfile ignored by portindex

2015-07-31 Thread Sterling Smith
On Jul 31, 2015, at 6:33AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2015-07-31 15:14, Sean Whalen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm new to portfile writing. I've created a few ports in a local >> repository. The ones that replace/update remote ports work fine (e.g. >> yara). However, a new portfile, (i.e. devel/py-

Commit changes proposed in 48301

2015-07-21 Thread Sterling Smith
Will someone with committing privileges accept the patch given in https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48301? If there is a different suggested workflow, I am open to suggestions. Thanks, Sterling ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge

Re: Notes in gpodder

2015-06-26 Thread Sterling Smith
On Jun 26, 2015, at 3:04PM, Clemens Lang wrote: > On June 26, 2015 11:46:51 PM GMT+02:00, Mihai Moldovan > wrote: >> On 26.06.2015 11:44 PM, Sterling Smith wrote: >>> Presumably the port dependencies that need to be installed are stored >> and it would be nice if at

Re: Notes in gpodder

2015-06-26 Thread Sterling Smith
Mihai, While I don’t think that the notes of any port are more important than any other port, there is a problem seeing the notes as they fly by in the barrage of output as a given port with all of its dependencies is installed. There was a thread in the past about how to get notes to stand out

Re: github portgroup design

2015-06-23 Thread Sterling Smith
On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:51PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jun 23, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >> >> On Jun 23, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> Yes, but then we get into the problem of order of inclusion. If the github >>> portgroup sets default master_sites, and

Re: pypi

2015-06-22 Thread Sterling Smith
Just so I’m clear - are the portgroups part of macports base or part of the port database? Basically, if I do a `port selfupdate` do I get them, or only when there is a new release of macports? I can see python.rootname (which looks like it cuts off the `py-` prefix) would be very useful in a

Re: dylib paths

2015-06-02 Thread Sterling Smith
Josh, Lawrence, Clemens, Brandon, Thanks for your responses. I was able to fish “LINKSHARED=...-install_name $libdir/\$(@F)” out of the configure.in file to be able to proceed. -Sterling On Jun 2, 2015, at 12:45PM, Clemens Lang wrote: > Hey, > > - On 2 Jun, 2015, at 19:53, Brandon Allbe

dylib paths

2015-06-02 Thread Sterling Smith
I am trying to create a port for the MDSplus library. I have beat the library’s make process into submission to make use of DESTDIR and other standard directories. So now it creates several dylibs and executables in the proper directories, but for which otool -L yields the build directory for

Re: pip2port

2014-02-27 Thread Sterling Smith
Gaurav, I would be happy to be a tester of the development versions of pip2port. -Sterling From: Jeremy Lavergne Date: February 27, 2014 10:45:04 AM PST To: Gaurav Bansal Cc: "macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org Development" Subject: Re: pip2port The goal of pip2port is to generate a Portfi

Re: macports ports

2013-10-30 Thread Sterling Smith
> > Thank you! > > On 30 ottobre 2013 at 19:09:42, Sterling Smith (smit...@fusion.gat.com) wrote: > >> Macports committers, >> >> Please have a look at the following tickets and commit them or comment on >> them >> >> https://trac.macp

macports ports

2013-10-30 Thread Sterling Smith
Macports committers, Please have a look at the following tickets and commit them or comment on them https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39968 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40013 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40014 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39641 Having followed the development list for

Ports needing approval

2013-08-19 Thread Sterling Smith
MacPorts Development Team, Can someone commit the ports submitted in tickets 39968, 40013, 40014, 40015, and 40080? Thanks, Sterling PS If this email is not the appropriate next step, feel free to let me know that. ___ macports-dev mailing list macp

py-poppler variants vs separate ports

2013-08-14 Thread Sterling Smith
Development team, Davide Liessi just posed a question earlier today about creating a port for python-poppler-qt4. I have recently submitted a Portfile for a port named py-poppler [1], to install python/glib bindings to poppler [2]. While I think that it is fine for the two ports to exist sepa

Re: Help to develop some python package ports

2013-08-03 Thread Sterling Smith
I finally read chapter 4 of the guide, and it's all much clearer now. Thanks for your suggestions. -Sterling On Aug 2, 2013, at 8:45PM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2013-8-3 08:57 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Aug 2, 2013, at 17:41, Sterling Smith wrote: >> >>&g

Re: Help to develop some python package ports

2013-08-02 Thread Sterling Smith
> ryandes...@macports.org writes: > >> On Aug 2, 2013, at 13:29, Sterling Smith wrote: >> >>> I'm new to the list. Please gently correct any missteps I make. >> >> Welcome! >> >>> For reasons to remain unnamed, I need to install several python p

Help to develop some python package ports

2013-08-02 Thread Sterling Smith
MacPorts Developers, I'm new to the list. Please gently correct any missteps I make. For reasons to remain unnamed, I need to install several python packages for which there are not yet ports. While I would usually do a `pip install https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev