Re: Testing an idea

2019-02-10 Thread Eric F (iEFdev)
On 2/10/19 14:05 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > We do support fetching sources of various software from bitbucket and > gitlab (improved / simplified support underway; Chris mentioned > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/3510 for example), but > that's orthogonal to what you are asking. Ye

Re: Testing an idea

2019-02-10 Thread Eric F (iEFdev)
On 2/10/19 11:23 , Chris Jones wrote: >> Speaking of that… Are there any plans to expand to GitLab? They have a great >> function to import/mirror from GitHub, which keep the repo updated. > What do you mean by expand to gitlab?. We have > > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/3510 > >

Universal packaging tool (for pypi, cpan, ruby, ...)

2019-02-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, Last week I was sitting in cafeteria with the author of a new python package "upt" (Universal packaging tool) whose aim is to provide automatic conversion from one of the repositories like pypi, cpan, ruby gems, npm, ... into any other package manager. https://framagit.org/upt https:/

How to defend "using the right compiler" in upstream projects

2019-02-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, I need help explaining why it's important to us to use the right compiler (even when the source is written in plain C and even Tiger can build the source, so one cannot say that something is really broken): https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/issues/509 https://github.com/macports/macpor

Re: Testing an idea

2019-02-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 02:26, Eric F (iEFdev) wrote: > > I had this idea I want to test here. When creating a Portfile and adding: > maintainers - only GitHub is recognized when adding a username like > “@fooBar”. One *could* cheat and use: > > In Portfile: maintainers{GitHost:\ @fooBar

Re: Testing an idea

2019-02-10 Thread Chris Jones
> On 10 Feb 2019, at 2:37 am, Eric F (iEFdev) wrote: > > Thanks Zero. > > >> On 2/10/19 2:39 , Zero King wrote: >> I believe the maintainers field is used to contact the maintainer, >> either via email or by mentioning (@) the user on GitHub. We can't >> contact one with their GitLab or Bit