Re: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't (js)

2008-03-13 Thread js
: 1. Change python24 to drop standard mods just as python25 does. 2. Don't change anything. 3. 1+add dropped mods to python24 and python25 as dependencies I like the first one. How about you? On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:08 PM, js [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The benefit is that python24 and python25

Re: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't (js)

2008-03-12 Thread js
] wrote: js wrote: If I add zlib dependency to python24, I'd also add it to python25. But if you you add it as dependency, what is the benefit from putting it in its own port? Rainer ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org

Re: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't (js)

2008-03-11 Thread js
Yes, that may be confusing. But it seems that your solution is to make everyone that runs a port upgrade python24 discover they don't have zlib anymore. Thats all I'm pointing out. That would be avoidable without any hassle. depend_lib or ui_msg? It also presumably involves you running

Enabling configureccache by default?

2008-03-11 Thread js
Hi, ccache really saves so much time, but it is off by default. Assuming this is just because MacPorts installer does not contain ccache, how about adding ccache into the installer and making configurecache on by default? I think this would help many users who don't know about ccache, just like I

Re: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't (js)

2008-03-10 Thread js
To lower this risk, I could resign python24 port to separate some of sorry, another typo s/resign/redesign/ ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev

Portfile skelton generator?

2008-03-08 Thread js
Hi, I've just thought it would be very convenient to have Portfile skelton generator in base MacPorts system. The generator would works this way. Let's say I wanted to add a new port named foo. $ port skelton foo 1.0 Portfile The content of Portfile would looks like # -*- coding: utf-8;

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-07 Thread js
The hier part of the guide is meant to provide the source for the porthier.7 man page. It doesn't right now, but we are intending to base all manpages on the guide very shortly, so changing the guide is how to get the man pages changed. Right now the guide has the most up-to-date

Re: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't

2008-03-07 Thread js
Apparently more people like this change. I'll get back to trac ticket and start working on this. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:39 AM, js [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for thorough explanation. That makes sense. The reason why I started this discussion is that I want to make python24

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-07 Thread js
js wrote: Let's say I just installed mysql5 and apache2. Where's the configuration files? for mysq5, It's located in ${prefix}/etc/mysql5 by default. for apache2 ${prefix}/apache2/conf/ by default. Where's the log files? mysql5 uses /opt/local/var/db/mysql5 apache2 uses

Re: py-twistedweb2 and py25-twisted-web2 uses different name convension

2008-03-07 Thread js
BTW, Twisted Web2 is still under development and recommend using svn trunk until next release. So I assume there're not so many people using twisted web2 port. I think now is the time to fix this portname. On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:27 PM, js [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, is my request rejected

Re: py-twistedweb2 and py25-twisted-web2 uses different name convension

2008-03-07 Thread js
More people apparently agreed this change. I attached the fix below. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14375 Closing this discussion. On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:55 PM, js [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, Twisted Web2 is still under development and recommend using svn trunk until

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-06 Thread js
I wrote the Filename hierarchy standard for MacPorts. I know there's already porthier(7), but I thought it would be nice to have more specific standard. So is this meant to replace porthier(7)? Than you should write it up as a patch for the manual page. I don't think we need yet

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-06 Thread js
BSDs save system-specific data like locate.database here. might be good place to put macports dir. var/macports moved from var/db/dports in the DarwinPorts - MacPorts rename effort. Any reason? ___ macports-dev mailing list

Re: RFC: Changing apache2 to install its files to /opt/local/ instead of /opt/local/apache2

2008-03-04 Thread js
The apache port should be able to coexist with either the apache2 or the apache20 port. Currently, they cannot coexist: $ sudo port activate apache Password: --- Activating apache Error: port activate failed: Image error: /opt/local/share/man/man1/ dbmmanage.1.gz is

Re: py-twistedweb2 and py25-twisted-web2 uses different name convension

2008-03-04 Thread js
Then, is my request rejected? Who has the power to decide this kind of issue? On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 29, 2008, at 14:33, Kevin Ballard wrote: On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 29, 2008, at 09:20, js wrote

Re: RFC: Changing apache2 to install its files to /opt/local/ instead of /opt/local/apache2

2008-03-02 Thread js
Before anyone does anything, I'd like to know why you want this change. Consistency, period. When I upgraded from apache1 to apache2, it surprized me that there is no conf dir in /opt/local/etc and apachectl is in /opt/local/apache2/bin/. Let's figure out the pros and cons. A con would be

RFC: Changing apache2 to install its files to /opt/local/ instead of /opt/local/apache2

2008-03-01 Thread js
Hi James, As you know, current apache2 port uses /opt/local/apache2 as a prefix. This is a bit different from other ports using /opt/local as a prefix. This problem always confused me, so I think it would be nice if it changed to use the same prefix. This change, however, would need a lot of

How should MacPorts show users instruction messages (was: user instructions - was ... mysql5 + php5 + apache2)

2008-02-29 Thread js
I don't think this is not worth the effort. if there were a way to provide instrictions, it would encourages developer to write more messages I suppose. On 2/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that if you do miss these messages, then you can't easily

Trac ticket that need your attension

2008-02-29 Thread js
The folllowing tickets has been unchanged more than 3 days. Please review/commit them. ipython http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14360 twisted http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14375 python_select http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14452

Re: How should MacPorts show users instruction messages

2008-02-29 Thread js
For this rather long nedi help, I would prefer to put them into some file like /opt/local/share/doc/nedi/INSTALL.macports and just print a message that there is additional help in this file. I like this idea. On 3/1/08, Rainer Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: +1 +1 for what

Re: How should MacPorts show users instruction messages (was: user instructions - was ... mysql5 + php5 + apache2)

2008-02-29 Thread js
+1 On 2/29/08, Rainer Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: I don't think this is not worth the effort. if there were a way to provide instrictions, it would encourages developer to write more messages I suppose. One option would be to simply hold back any message until all ports

Re: Warnings when I visit http://www.macports.org/ in Safari v.1.3.2

2008-02-26 Thread js
22, 2008, at 23:07, js wrote: Hi, when I viist http://www.macports.org/ with Safari v.1.3.2, I always see the warnings saying warnings This page contains the following errors: error on line 41 at column 459: Entity 'nbsp' not defined error on line 92 at column 45: Entity

Re: Warnings when I visit http://www.macports.org/ in Safari v.1.3.2

2008-02-26 Thread js
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/safari_and_xhtml/ On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Rainer Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: The problem is Safari 1.3 is processing the page as an XML document, even though, just as you pointed out, it's really a XHTML. The server

Re: Proposal for daily list of new tickets

2008-02-25 Thread js
You can rely on RSS for that matter. One thing I want to have is weekly summary report of macports-dev, macports-list. Although this would need editors to write it up, very attractive for me. On 2/22/08, Randall Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Openoffice.org publishes a daily email of new tickets

Re: 72 hours are not enough for maintainers?

2008-02-22 Thread js
I suggest giving non-maintainers the permission to change Assigned to field. Once tickets are properly assigned, all you have to do is to look at My tickets. In addition to that, How abount sending reminder to macports-dev when there're tickets unchanged more than a few weeks? Trac's backend is

Re: 72 hours are not enough for maintainers?

2008-02-22 Thread js
I suggest giving non-maintainers the permission to change Assigned to field. It seems to me like that would be a good idea too. But I'm not sure what all the implications of that would be. According to Trac doc[1], if I had TICKET_CHGPROP, I could modify ticket properties except

Warnings when I visit http://www.macports.org/ in Safari v.1.3.2

2008-02-22 Thread js
Hi, when I viist http://www.macports.org/ with Safari v.1.3.2, I always see the warnings saying warnings This page contains the following errors: error on line 41 at column 459: Entity 'nbsp' not defined error on line 92 at column 45: Entity 'ldquo' not defined error on line 113 at column 211:

Re: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't

2008-02-20 Thread js
Hi Markus, does not compute: python25 drops but python25 doesn't -- contradiction detected. ;) Oops! That's typo. My question was why python2.4 and 2.5 is different. If the question was why python25 does not build all auxiliary modules [1] like _sqlite3 etc.: For people who don't need

Re: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't

2008-02-20 Thread js
Thanks for thorough explanation. That makes sense. The reason why I started this discussion is that I want to make python24 to be python25-like port. What if I created patches for this, Would you accept that changes? well, what else do you want to change? There already are

Re: Proposal: reminder to the assignee when a ticket is unchanged more than 3 days

2008-02-19 Thread js
Besides, I don't have permission to change Assigned to field of a Trac ticket. Maintainers probably don't see ticket not assigned to them. Correct. Adding the maintainer to the Cc line would also work in a pinch. Just a email is easy to miss, I guess. If I could assign maintainers to

Re: Proposal: reminder to the assignee when a ticket is unchanged more than 3 days

2008-02-19 Thread js
or two to comment on if you want to continue the debate. -Bill On Feb 19, 2008, at 4:56 AM, js wrote: Besides, I don't have permission to change Assigned to field of a Trac ticket. Maintainers probably don't see ticket not assigned to them. Correct. Adding the maintainer to the Cc line

Re: Proposal: reminder to the assignee when a ticket is unchanged more than 3 days

2008-02-18 Thread js
don't have permission to change Assigned to field of a Trac ticket. Maintainers probably don't see ticket not assigned to them. If I could assign maintainers to my tickets, I might help the situation. On 2/18/08, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 17, 2008, at 03:17, js wrote: I'm

Re: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't

2008-02-18 Thread js
There seems to be few people who is interested in this issue :( I really love to fix this for consistency. If somebody asked, I'd do create py25-ports which already exist for python24. python25 should be more used than python24. The more modules python25 has, the more people likely to use

Proposal: reminder to the assignee when a ticket is unchanged more than 3 days

2008-02-17 Thread js
I'm not sure whether Trac has this capability or not, but I think having reminder would prevent maintainers from missing their jobs. The reminder would be sent to maintainers when - the status of the ticket remains new more than 3 days - the ticket has a patch to review but not answered more

Re: 72 hours are not enough for maintainers?

2008-02-16 Thread js
Hi Blair, If Maintainers think so, that's fine with me. I just guessed 72 hours are not practical to accept for maintainers. On 2/16/08, Blair Zajac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: Hi, MacPorts Guide says The maintainer should apply the patches and close the ticket within 72

Fwd: [MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't

2008-02-16 Thread js
# Moving from Trac ticket #14342 No, py25-foo can have different dependencies than py-foo. I don't know what you wanted to tell us with this. I meant if we would change python24 to drop some standard modules like the current python25 port does, py-foo and py25-foo's dependencies would be the

Re: Trac ticket that need your attention: py25-mysql

2008-02-15 Thread js
Sorry to disturb, but another reminder. Maintainers, This is the reminder for the ticket which hasn't received no response from maintainers more than 72 hours. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13410 Please take a look and commit the patch if everything's fine

72 hours are not enough for maintainers?

2008-02-15 Thread js
Hi, MacPorts Guide says The maintainer should apply the patches and close the ticket within 72 hours. If the maintainer does not respond within 72 hours, you or another committer may review the patches and update the port. But actually this is not always the case. So I started to consider 72

Let's avoid using md5 as checksum

2008-02-15 Thread js
Hi, As you know, MD5 has serious flaws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5) So recently I don't use it and even remove it when I found it in the checksum part of portfile. I thought dropping use of md5 in portfile would be nice. Any thought? ___

Re: Let's avoid using md5 as checksum

2008-02-15 Thread js
Disagree. Three types of checksums (md5, sha1, rmd160) in a portfile are stronger than just two. I would agree that ports should not use md5 alone, but I would also say that ports should not use sha1 or rmd160 alone. Ports should use all three checksum types. When we have sha1 and rmd160

Re: Let's avoid using md5 as checksum

2008-02-15 Thread js
NP, author has free to ignore the warning message ;) On Feb 16, 2008 2:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 15, 2008, at 23:29, js wrote: You might say we should therefore use sha1 or rmd160 instead. But what if a similar problem is discovered in sha1 or rmd160? MD5

Fwd: Trac ticket that need your attension: py25-mysql

2008-02-13 Thread js
Forgot to send this to macports-dev... forwarding. -- Forwarded message -- From: js [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 13, 2008 9:52 PM Subject: Trac ticket that need your attension: py25-mysql To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainers, This is the reminder for the ticket

Trac ticket that need your attension: py-mako, py25-mako 0.1.10

2008-02-13 Thread js
Maintainer, This is the reminder for the ticket which hasn't received no response from maintainers more than 72 hours. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14255 Please take a look and commit the patch if everything's file ___

Re: Trac ticket that need your attension: py-mako, py25-mako 0.1.10, pylons 0.9.6.1 and ports pylons depends

2008-02-13 Thread js
And pylons 0.9.6.1 and the too. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14235 On 2/13/08, js [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maintainer, This is the reminder for the ticket which hasn't received no response from maintainers more than 72 hours. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects

Re: why is my port no being added?

2008-02-13 Thread js
Might be better to send this to macports-dev. On 2/13/08, Florian Ebeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I submitted a Portfile for a new port a couple of weeks ago, but nothing happend. http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13779 Is there anything wrong with it? I think I

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-08 Thread js
Then let me acquaint you with our ports tree: boehmgc (7.0) is newer than boehmgc-devel (6.3alpha6) php5 (5.2.5) is newer than php5-devel (5.2.5RC2) swi-prolog (5.6.50) is newer than swi-prolog-devel (5.5.36) sylpheed (2.2.3) is newer than sylpheed-devel (2.2.0beta7) tin (1.8.3) is newer

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-07 Thread js
Some of our non-devel ports do install development versions because the latest releases don't work at all or are years out of date, say. But generally this should not be the case. If you think the latest stable release of a program is not suitable, then you should push the developers to

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-07 Thread js
If the developer call it as stable and the other's development, Let' follow it. Anyone who like to use newer can easily choose -devel one. On Feb 7, 2008 10:50 PM, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-07 22:08:57 +0900, js wrote: I agree with you, but I think

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-05 Thread js
I think -devel is better. For one thing, it's more intuitive. Second, this naming convension is already used in FreeBSD so at least BSD users prefers -devel one. By the way, I think MacPorts is not for everyone, I mean, it's mostly for developer or kinds of techies, right? So IMHO providing an

Re: Different dmgs for different felines (was: Re: Make 1.6.0 the default version for new tickets)

2007-12-28 Thread js
Why is it again that we need separate dmgs for separate OS releases at all? Why don't we just have a single universal dmg, with the PowerPC part built with the 10.3.9 SDK and the Intel part built with the 10.4u SDK, and everyone's happy? Isn't that the whole point of universal binaries and

Fwd: macforge.org via https?

2007-12-25 Thread js
Forwarding to macports developers. -- Forwarded message -- From: js [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dec 25, 2007 12:19 AM Subject: macforge.org via https? To: MacPorts Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi list, A simple question. is there any reason http://www.macosforge.org/wp-login.php

RFC: coreutils uses program-prefix=g by default

2007-12-22 Thread js
Hi list, I've just installed coreutils and found that all files in coreutils have g prefix. port cat corefiles show that this is because coreutils' portfile set configure.args to program-prefix=g. The reason why I installed coreutils was to run shell script that uses seq but for the g prefix,

Re: RFC: coreutils uses program-prefix=g by default

2007-12-22 Thread js
Hi Rainer. Thanks for your quick reply. On Dec 22, 2007 9:41 PM, Rainer Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: [...] Yes, I can easily avoid this by port edit corefiles and drop program-prefix but I thought if most of the MacPorts users wouldn't want g, it might be better to fix

Re: RFC: coreutils uses program-prefix=g by default

2007-12-22 Thread js
But it have no doubt having g prefix is safer than installing bins without it. On Dec 22, 2007 10:30 PM, js [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 22, 2007 10:13 PM, Rainer Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: On Dec 22, 2007 9:41 PM, Rainer Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: So

Re: Make 1.6.0 the default version for new tickets

2007-12-22 Thread js
But there's no working 1.6 binary for OS X 10.3. Wouldn't it be nice to postpone that change after the fix? (I won't be long, right?) On Dec 23, 2007 11:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When filing a new ticket, the default MacPorts version is still 1.5.2. Since 1.6.0 has been

No response from ipython's main

2007-12-06 Thread js
Hi, I filed a tichet and attached patches but no response is returned. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13459 Someone please check my patches into the svn? ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org

No resopnse from py-django-devel and py25-django-devel's maintainer

2007-11-30 Thread js
Hi, I filed a tichet and attached patches but no response is returned. http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13431 Someone please check my patches into the svn? ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org