Re: tenfourfox - should it be in the MacPorts repo?

2018-10-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 11, 2018, at 12:29, Christopher Jones wrote: >> Apparently, gcc48 can produce some zero-length N_SECTs that error out in the >> default strip command but don't need to. Cameron made them warnings instead >> (see below). We are reaching the limits of my knowledge about this issue >> ri

Re: Tcl namespaces and private procedures and variables

2018-10-11 Thread Gustaf Neumann
On 10.10.18 04:09, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Well, you could say that's also the purpose of the naming conventions we've used in other portgroups. The naming of the github.setup procedure and the github.homepage option and so forth are intended to convey that they are part of the github portgroup. I

Re: tenfourfox - should it be in the MacPorts repo?

2018-10-11 Thread Christopher Jones
> On 11 Oct 2018, at 6:51 pm, Ken Cunningham > wrote: > > > On 2018-10-11, at 10:38 AM, Christopher Jones wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> A couple other thoughts… >> >> What platforms do you see this being useful on ? I know that older >> platforms, but newer than 10.4, also have issues with SSL/TL

Re: tenfourfox - should it be in the MacPorts repo?

2018-10-11 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2018-10-11, at 10:38 AM, Christopher Jones wrote: > Hi, > > A couple other thoughts… > > What platforms do you see this being useful on ? I know that older platforms, > but newer than 10.4, also have issues with SSL/TLS support. Presumably this > would also be useful on these ? 10.6 ? 10.7

Re: tenfourfox - should it be in the MacPorts repo?

2018-10-11 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi, A couple other thoughts… What platforms do you see this being useful on ? I know that older platforms, but newer than 10.4, also have issues with SSL/TLS support. Presumably this would also be useful on these ? 10.6 ? 10.7 ? Related to the above what is the rationale for forcing the use of

Re: tenfourfox - should it be in the MacPorts repo?

2018-10-11 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi, > Apparently, gcc48 can produce some zero-length N_SECTs that error out in the > default strip command but don't need to. Cameron made them warnings instead > (see below). We are reaching the limits of my knowledge about this issue > right about now … OK. Looking at that patch, because al

Re: tenfourfox - should it be in the MacPorts repo?

2018-10-11 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2018-10-11, at 10:05 AM, Christopher Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Being ’niche’ in itself is no reason to not include something in MacPorts, so > that shouldn’t be a concern. We have plenty of ‘niche’ ports already, which > is partly what makes MacPorts better than the alternatives ;) > > If t

Re: tenfourfox - should it be in the MacPorts repo?

2018-10-11 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi, Being ’niche’ in itself is no reason to not include something in MacPorts, so that shouldn’t be a concern. We have plenty of ‘niche’ ports already, which is partly what makes MacPorts better than the alternatives ;) If the new ports build ‘normally’ like any other, then why not have them i

tenfourfox - should it be in the MacPorts repo?

2018-10-11 Thread Ken Cunningham
Older MacOS versions lack browsers that support TLSv1.2, and other enhancements that allow them to work comfortably in the current world. Cameron Kaiser has been dutifully maintaining a fork of Firefox for a decade that works nicely on PPC Macs 10.4 and 10.5, and keeps it remarkably up to date w