Re: "port upgrade" error message usability

On 1/30/22 10:16 AM, Julien Salort wrote: Le 30/01/2022 à 10:30, Andrew Janke a écrit : I'm the primary maintainer for Octave.app (https://octave-app.org/), a "native Mac app" distribution of GNU Octave (https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index), and I'm getting

Re: "port upgrade" error message usability

On 1/30/22 5:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 30, 2022, at 03:30, Andrew Janke wrote: All MacPorts commands operate on a Portfile in the current directory if you don't specify what ports to operate on. This was the "implicit knowledge" I was lacking here. There is admi

Re: "port upgrade" error message usability

On 1/30/22 4:04 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 30, 2022, at 02:24, Andrew Janke wrote: Hi, MacPorts developers, Long-time Homebrew user and recent MacPorts convert here. Welcome! I'm interested in your impressions of MacPorts as a Homebrew user and if you have any suggestions for ch

Re: "port upgrade" error message usability

On 1/30/22 4:04 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 30, 2022, at 02:24, Andrew Janke wrote: Hi, MacPorts developers, Long-time Homebrew user and recent MacPorts convert here. Welcome! I'm interested in your impressions of MacPorts as a Homebrew user and if you have any suggestions for ch

"port upgrade" error message usability

Hi, MacPorts developers, Long-time Homebrew user and recent MacPorts convert here. Minor usability issue with the `port` program, I think: I suspect that a common operation for regular MacPorts users to do is "upgrade all my stuff to the latest version". I tried doing this with `port selfupd

Re: Help wanted from Mojave users

On 5/23/21 1:15 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2021-5-23 14:53 , Andrew Janke wrote: >> >> I have a 10.14.6 VM running Xcode 11.3.1 prepped to test this; results >> coming soon. > > Thank you. > >> Minor issue while trying to find a MacPorts 2.6.4 installer: The

Re: Help wanted from Mojave users

On 5/22/21 11:08 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > Could someone with a 10.14 system running an Xcode version that > defaults to building against the 10.15 SDK please try installing the > tip of the release-2.7 branch on top of a MacPorts 2.6.4 installation? > Report the results in the comments here: > <

Re: Freenode IRC

On 5/19/21 2:44 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: On 19/05/2021 20.25, Andrew Janke wrote: Have you considered using ZNC or another IRC "bouncer"? It'll retain and replay history for you so you can get offline messages and have a consistent message history between computers and devic

Re: Freenode IRC

Have you considered using ZNC or another IRC "bouncer"? It'll retain and replay history for you so you can get offline messages and have a consistent message history between computers and devices. Pretty easy to install if you have a Linux server somewhere, and hardly uses any resources. Cheer

Re: Framing the MacPorts discussion

I have a small stack of Mac Minis I got to use as a buildbot farm for Octave.app; I might be able to have them pull double duty for MacPorts depending on your change volume. Cheers, Andrew On 5/19/21 1:16 PM, Mark Anderson wrote: Yeah - we are certainly short staffed everywhere - I try to add

Re: Becoming a legal entity and accepting donations (was: Re: Buildbot Performance)

Software Freedom Conservancy exists largely to help FLOSS orgs do this sort of thing safely and conveniently, while retaining independent governance. I believe Homebrew had a good experience with them, and Buildbot itself is a member. Was that one of the options considered when this question came u

Re: Homebrew Disables OSXFuse ports

On 5/17/21 1:44 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On May 16, 2021, at 21:49, Mark Anderson wrote: > >> Given some of our recent back and forth, I found this interesting: >> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/74812 > Meh. They have different priorities than we do. No reason for us to follow

Re: Publicizing MacPorts

On 4/19/21 3:54 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote: > >> On Apr 19, 2021, at 2:51 PM, Jason Liu > > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:25 PM Craig Treleaven > > wrote: >> >> Also, why should we consider that MacPorts is in competition with >>

Octave port: website search results, 6.2.0, and Tablicious

Hi, MacPorts maintainers, First off, thanks for all your hard work! Couple questions about your Octave port. Octave 6.2.0 is out; released on Feb 20. Looking at https://ports.macports.org/port/octave/summary, it seems like the MacPorts port is still on 6.1.0. When can we expect it to update t

Re: Desolate Condition

On 1/26/21 9:41 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote: > I have used MacPorts to package a substantial application (MythTV). As an > overview, MythTV and all its dependencies were installed to a custom prefix > (/opt/dvr)*. A couple of helper apps (Applescripts, if you want the full > truth) are the on

Re: Desolate Condition

On 1/26/21 3:50 PM, Nils Breunese wrote: > Christopher Nielsen wrote: > >> One advantage that HomeBrew does have, though, is cachet: There are so many >> times when articles - or even organizations, such as Google - simply >> recommend using HomeBrew… with no mention of MacPorts. > I think it

Re: Desolate Condition

servers > under FreeBSD where everything literally has to be build locally, as > pre-built packages may be up three months out of date. > >> On Jan 26, 2021, at 9:40 AM, Andrew Janke > <mailto:fl...@apjanke.net>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 1/26/21 10:12 AM

Re: Desolate Condition

On 1/26/21 10:12 AM, Christopher Nielsen wrote: >> /Ken Cunningham wrote: >> / >> homebrew is in shambles. >> >> their long-touted "no-sudo" and "no PATH" advantage from installing >> into /usr/local has been eliminated by Apple as the horrible security >> threat it always was. They have to retoo

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

On 1/25/21 10:31 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jan 25, 2021, at 01:55, Joshua Root wrote: > >> On 2021-1-25 18:48 , Andrew Janke wrote: >>> How do you download the installers for Big Sur and for older versions of >>> macOS? I've always had to go through t

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

Hi Ken, On 1/24/21 11:34 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> I try to fix build issues on old systems. The problem is that it’s very >> difficult to >> do it since I need to merge blindly something and wait for the buildbots. > If you would like to set up a VM or several to help do this, it is > very ea

Re: Hardcoding Xcode.app

Just one data point here, but as a sometimes Mac developer, I need to have multiple versions of Xcode installed side-by-side, and always rename them to Xcode-.app; there's no /Applications/Xcode.app on my boxes. This isn't a standard thing, so on my system, `xcode-select -p` is the only reliabl

Re: Call for designers for our ports website

Hi y'all, I was a core Homebrew maintainer at the time they added analytics. Just want to say that Saagar is right; there were a *lot* of Homebrew users who did in fact have a problem with it. Cheers, Andrwe On 6/12/20 9:03 PM, Saagar Jha wrote: > I believe the lack of change there is almost ce

Re: Default language for GIMP installed by MacPorts

On 10/3/19 8:00 PM, Thomas R. Murphy wrote: > Hello Macports Dev, > > I just got around to trying to use my MacPorts intstall of GIMP (gimp > @2.10.12_0) and encountered the slight difficulty of it starting in > Arabic using the default "system language" setting. I started it from > the command

Re: Octave 5.x on MacPorts

On 5/13/19 1:45 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2019-5-13 08:40 , Andrew Janke wrote: >> Would you be willing to do something to improve the situation on >> MacPorts? As things stand right now, I don't think MacPorts is shipping >> a usable GUI-mode Octave. And there ar

Octave 5.x on MacPorts

ode users out there. This could include: * Adding an Octave 4.4.x port alongside the main Octave 5.x port * Adding an option or default to build Octave 5.x against Qt 5.11 instead of Qt 5.12 (which seems to improve, but not fully fix, the problem) * ??? other ideas your Octave port maintainers have ??? Cheers, Andrew Janke

Re: Slack-like chat (also for GSOC)

On 5/12/19 3:49 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > I looked at Zulip chat which was used for GSOC meeting. That one would > also only retain the last few thousand messages unless we payed an > amount that we could not afford as a project. > Mattermost probably doesn't offer any free SaaS option? > Disco