Re: emacs-app-devel build fail on master not detected by buildbot

2021-04-22 Thread Dan Ports
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:05:34PM +0900, Aaron Madlon-Kay wrote: > However it was rejected by the maintainer because he *wants* the current > setup. If the port no longer builds because the referenced commit is more > than 1,000 commits in the past, then the port is ripe for a bump. Increasing

the state of osxfuse

2020-10-12 Thread Dan Ports
Hi everyone, The osxfuse ports and its dependents are in a pretty sad state right now. I don't know what to do with them -- and I don't have the time to fix it anyway (I've dropped maintainership). But I thought I'd post about it here in hopes that someone else can take it up. There are three ser

Re: Thoughts on switching our archive compression method

2020-09-23 Thread Dan Ports
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 08:28:19PM +0200, Vincent Habchi wrote: > I agree wholeheartedly, but since you mention modern compression algorithms, > isn’t there another one (or more) which would be yet more efficient than xz? In terms of compressed file size, I'm not sure anything is going to beat xz

pgf: objections to removing?

2020-07-11 Thread Dan Ports
The pgf port installs a latex package that would otherwise be in texlive-pictures. It's been a separate port mostly for historical reasons -- it predates our texlive ports. This port used to be maintained. It's a nomaintainer port now, but people have still been keeping it up to date. I'd just as

Re: osxfuse kludge

2018-05-07 Thread Dan Ports
I've kept looking for a better answer -- either something automated or for someone upstream to fix the build system -- but this is probably the best we can do for the moment. If we could get this applied to the buildbot, that would be great; it'd make the kludge moot for the majority of users. Da