Re: Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

2018-03-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 31 March 2018 at 19:31, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > For example, cmake pegged @ 3.9 will work for many years on Tiger to build > any software that needs cmake, and at present, you can get nothing usable > from the main MacPorts repo. CMake is in fact one exception where I would be in favour of

Re: Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

2018-03-31 Thread Ken Cunningham
> On Mar 31, 2018, at 8:08 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > A few problems I see with this approach: > (a) What happens when a dependency of one of those ports is changed. > Unless you have some CI system in place for this to tell you that a > port needs a revbump at least, you won't know. I don’t

Re: Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

2018-03-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Ken, On 28 March 2018 at 18:01, Ken Cunningham wrote: > In Rene mentions the idea > of generating port tree overlays for specific versions of MacOS, to preserve > compatible versions of ports which have moved beyond the capabilities of tha

Re: Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

2018-03-28 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Wednesday March 28 2018 10:52:40 Ken Cunningham wrote: >e.gl. things like this, from ffmpeg: > ># as of 1.6.0 libvpx only supports darwin 10 or later But what version does ffmpeg require, how much older is the last version that support libvpx < 1.6, and does that version even support 10.5

Re: Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

2018-03-28 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2018-03-28, at 10:04 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > I'm not sure I follow nor that I agree with what I think I understand. If > pegged ports are ports no longer supported (in that form/version) on the main > tree, why would they have to follow what the main tree does with their > current v

Re: Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

2018-03-28 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Wednesday March 28 2018 09:44:07 Ken Cunningham wrote: > Pegged supporting libraries, like libvpx, are harder as often in the main > port tree the use of them on certain systems is dropped -- can't ask for > anything different. Interested users will have to step up. I'm not sure I follow nor

Re: Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

2018-03-28 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2018-03-28, at 9:20 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Wednesday March 28 2018 09:00:52 Ken Cunningham wrote: > > Thanks for picking this up, > >> I'd just like to mention that I've been working on this on my own for a >> while now, and have such trees in place, and available for contribution

Re: Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

2018-03-28 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Wednesday March 28 2018 09:00:52 Ken Cunningham wrote: Thanks for picking this up, > I'd just like to mention that I've been working on this on my own for a while > now, and have such trees in place, and available for contributions. Anyone > interested, feel free to suggest or contribute, p

Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

2018-03-28 Thread Ken Cunningham
In Rene mentions the idea of generating port tree overlays for specific versions of MacOS, to preserve compatible versions of ports which have moved beyond the capabilities of that OS. I'd just like to mention that I've been working on this on