New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Martin Krischik
Hi, I would say, if I had a vote (who does?), that whatever people are willing to use wins. It may not be elegant or state of the art, but the best is the enemy of the good, and good is usually good enough. I like to point out one more aspect: *If* we are going for a new Wiki we might as

Re: Output of port info --depends_xyz inconsistent (usually commas but not always)

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 10, 2008, at 23:28, Tabitha McNerney wrote: I have been working on a script (written in Ruby) that takes the output of the port command-line program (as suggested by Rainer recently), and parses the output looking for either port dependencies or file dependencies (note: up until

Re: New Howto

2008-06-11 Thread Martin Krischik
Zitat von Jordan K. Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, to be fair, I thought I was trying to address that by suggesting that there should be a top level doc project - individual projects could point up to it just as easily as it could point down to them, but it would be a clear docs portal for

Re: New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2008, at 01:15, Martin Krischik wrote: I would say, if I had a vote (who does?), that whatever people are willing to use wins. It may not be elegant or state of the art, but the best is the enemy of the good, and good is usually good enough. I like to point out one more

Re: New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Martin Krischik
Zitat von Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 11, 2008, at 01:15, Martin Krischik wrote: I would say, if I had a vote (who does?), that whatever people are willing to use wins. It may not be elegant or state of the art, but the best is the enemy of the good, and good is usually good

Re: New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Randall Wood
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Martin Krischik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zitat von Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 11, 2008, at 01:15, Martin Krischik wrote: I would say, if I had a vote (who does?), that whatever people are willing to use wins. It may not be elegant or state of the

Re: Output of port info --depends_xyz inconsistent (usually commas but not always)

2008-06-11 Thread Tabitha McNerney
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10, 2008, at 23:28, Tabitha McNerney wrote: I have been working on a script (written in Ruby) that takes the output of the port command-line program (as suggested by Rainer recently), and parses the output

Re: Output of port info --depends_xyz inconsistent (usually commas but not always)

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2008, at 05:53, Tabitha McNerney wrote: I seem to get commas always: $ port info --depends_lib gnome-vfs depends_lib: port:gconf, port:dbus, port:openssl, port:libidl, port:dbus-glib, port:libxml2, port:libiconv, port:gettext $ port info --depends_run gnome-vfs depends_run:

Re: FreeTDS

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 2, 2008, at 04:28, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 2, 2008, at 01:03, Nathan Brazil wrote: Hi. I see that FreeTDS has no maintainer. The latest portfile lists it at version 0.64, while the latest version at http:// freetds.org is 0.82. I have updated and attached the portfile. I

Re: Output of port info --depends_xyz inconsistent (usually commas but not always)

2008-06-11 Thread Rainer Müller
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Are you sure you're using the latest MacPorts? 1.6.0 right? Oh, I thought for some reason this port info --depends_foo stuff had been added more recently than 1.6.0 and that you were running the latest version from trunk, as I am. So if the problem exists in

Re: Is MacPort a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Rainer Müller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not to say I don't see your point too. MacPorts port (and AppleScript script) is long and sounds silly. Would be neat if we could come up with a new cute term for our ports. Ruby has gems, for instance. What entities could MacPorts have? Hmn. How about mport

gnome-sharp2 problems

2008-06-11 Thread Rebecca Rebhuhn-Glanz
Hi, I'm trying to install gnome-sharp2 and am getting the following error message when I use 'sudo port install gnome-sharp2': *configure: error: Package requirements (render = 0.9) were not met. Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a

Re: New Howto

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Martin Krischik wrote: Note that MediaWiki supports up to 256 name spaces. For example on wikibooks the cookbook runs in it's own name space: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook I think it would be a good idea to have one wiki for - including the homepage. It

Re: New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: The proposed new wiki was to be a global Mac OS Forge documentation wiki, not a MacPorts-specific wiki. I'm still not a fan of the idea. Do we really want to spend the time and energy converting content from the MacPorts Trac wiki to a Mac OS

Re: New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 11, 2008, at 1:18 AM, Martin Krischik wrote: From my quick check I also noted that MacPorts clearly is the largest Project on MacOS Forge ao we might as well take the lead. Actually, I believe that honor goes to WebKit. :-) It would be nice to have some pageview stats to back that up,

Re: Is MacPort a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: I dislike 'MacPort', but I like the term 'mport'. I dunno, that just doesn't seem to roll off the tongue and also suffers from excessive contraction at the wrong place. If, for example, you were trying to come up with a more convenient

Fwd: New Howto

2008-06-11 Thread Randall Wood
Failed to send to list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Randall Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:55 PM Subject: Re: New Howto To: Jordan K. Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10,

Re: New wiki

2008-06-11 Thread paul beard
Hmm, is it about time for the Bike Shed link to be cited? As a non-committer who has used MacPorts since it was DarwinPorts and used Fink before that, here's my two shiny bits of something or other. I wasn't aware there was large body of documentation to be migrated, so the argument that a new

local port tries to download patch files

2008-06-11 Thread kykim_lists
Hi all, I'm trying to make a new Portfile (for the ruby GeoIP module). And I've set up a local ports repository. Inside my local port repository, I've set up a directory with the Portfile and a files directory that contains patch files. It looks good when I run a portindex command. However,

Re: Is MacPort a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Joshua Root
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Mmm-port is how you'd pronounce mport in english, and I don't think that's very phonetically pleasing. I've always mentally pronounced it as emport, with the accent on the first syllable, which isn't too bad. - Josh ___

Re: Is MacPort a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2008, at 14:53, Ralph Pass wrote: Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a long time, I thought that when people were saying port, in this discussion, I thought the were referring to a port or a tcp/ ip address. like localhost:80 Clarity

Re: local port tries to download patch files

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2008, at 14:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a new Portfile (for the ruby GeoIP module). And I've set up a local ports repository. Inside my local port repository, I've set up a directory with the Portfile and a files directory that contains patch files. It looks

Re: Is MacPort a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2008, at 17:30, Joshua Root wrote: Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Mmm-port is how you'd pronounce mport in english, and I don't think that's very phonetically pleasing. I've always mentally pronounced it as emport, with the accent on the first syllable, which isn't too bad. That

Re: Is MacPort a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 11, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: That can be our new verb. I need to emport that new software. A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man... OK, consider my mind changed in just 2 lines. :-) - Jordan ___ macports-users mailing list