Re: how to extend 'clean' operation

2011-01-31 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-01 00:19 , James Gregurich wrote: > does workdir == $workpath? Uhm, yes, that is what I meant actually. Sorry for the confusion. I should have known better as in MacPorts anything ending with *path is an absolute path, while *dir means a relative directory name. > If so, then that is

Scheduled downtime on Feb 2, 15-16 UTC

2011-02-01 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, there will be a scheduled downtime for the MacPorts mailing list server due to maintenante at our hosting provider MacOSforge. The services will be affected on February 2nd from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC. See the original MacOSforge announcement attached below. Rainer Original Message

Re: port my own applications

2011-02-15 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, On 2011-02-15 09:03 , Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote: > I am the author of the Jubler subtitle program and a happy user of > macports. I would like to ask if you think it is acceptable to create > a port of my application. Although I have already a DMG version and > an auto-update mechanism, I

MacPorts participation in GSoC 2011

2011-02-16 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, Google has once again announced their Google Summer of Code for 2011. They will begin to accept mentoring organizations as of February 28 until March 11. In GSoC students get money to work for an open source project over the summer. MacPorts participated in the years from 2007 to 2010 with

Re: MacPorts participation in GSoC 2011

2011-02-17 Thread Rainer Müller
Thank you for all suggestions! I will incorporate these into the ideas page in the next days. On 2011-02-16 10:25 , Joshua Root wrote: > * When an action will run targets on multiple ports, run them in > parallel when possible and sensible (requires tracking dependencies > between both targets and

Re: [75992] trunk/dports/aqua

2011-02-17 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-16 18:39 , Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> I would dislike removing vcs fetching because it is very convenient to use. >> It can be used correctly -- specifying a version to fetch -- maintainers >> just need to know that they need to do t

gtk3 in category gnome

2011-02-18 Thread Rainer Müller
Hi David, you added a pre-release version of gtk3 a few weeks ago. I was looking into updating it to the final GTK+ 3.0.0. I noticed the new port lives in category gnome while gtk2 is in x11. Was this intentional? In my opinion we should move both into the same category. Rainer _

Re: gtk3 in category gnome

2011-02-18 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-18 18:32 , David Baumgold wrote: > I agree that gtk2 and gtk3 should be in the same category, but I figured > that "gnome" was more applicable than "x11", considering that GTK is the > Gnome ToolKit. I'm in favor of moving gtk2 to the gnome category: does > anyone have any objections? A

Re: [76421] trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/installing.xml

2011-02-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-23 22:05 , Andrea D'Amore wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt > wrote: > >> Of course, MP_EDITOR won't work for most users until we release a new >> version of MacPorts base including that change. > > Should documentation refer to a packaged release instead? We

Re: KDE's application path

2011-02-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-16 22:52 , Nicolas Pavillon wrote: > There are ways to circumvent this issue, but can hardly be automated > on the Portfile. Typically, a solution may be to prepare a preference > file with proper path already set in, but KDE's preferences are in > ~/Library/Preferences/KDE, so that inst

Re: perl5, perl5.* changes

2011-03-01 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-01 16:45 , Dan Ports wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:34:22PM -0800, Dan Ports wrote: >> I see this as a high-priority issue that affects many people. So if we >> can get things closer to working by revbumping a bunch of ports, we >> should do that ASAP. Is there any reason *not* to r

GSoC 2011: Call for Mentors

2011-03-03 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, I am going to submit an application on behalf of The MacPorts Project for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program 2011. I think most of you will already have heard of it. Google pays students to work on various Open Source projects over the summer. It is also a good start for students with

Re: GSoC 2011: Call for Mentors

2011-03-03 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-03 20:08 , William Siegrist wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > >> I will stand up to be the organization administrator again as I already >> did this last year. But we also need a backup administrator as a >> requirement from G

Re: portfile question concerning optional deps

2011-03-04 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-03 23:47 , Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> So I don't think changing the behavior of bin:- or lib:-style >> dependencies is warranted. Port authors just need to use the >> correct dependency style for what they're trying to do. > > My preferenc

Re: How to remove a port from MacPorts?

2011-03-07 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-07 08:35 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 7, 2011, at 01:18, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > >> On Mar 6, 2011, at 11:03 PM, Marko Käning wrote: >> > I guess it would be good to include this in the guide. :-) I guess it would be. >>> OK, when I successfully did my modifications

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