Hello,

I've used osxphotos once or twice and willing to make a port file and take care 
of it.

PR will be made tonight.

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wbr, Kirill

> On 7. Sep 2023, at 08:03, Nils Breunese <n...@breun.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I recently wanted to export some photos from Apple’s Photos application and 
> import them on my partner’s Mac, without losing any metadata, keeping Live 
> Photos as-is (not just a JOG), etc. I found osxphotos [0] to be a great tool 
> for this (and it can do much more!).
> 
> The osxphotos installation instructions [1] recommend installing pipx via 
> Homebrew, and then using pipx to install osxphotos. Alternative 
> recommendations are using pip instead of pipx, or installing from source.
> 
> I could use MacPorts instead of Homebrew to install pipx, but I prefer to 
> avoid installing software via language-specific package managers, because I 
> don’t want to have to deal with all those individual package managers (pip, 
> pipx, npm, etc.), separately from MacPorts.
> 
> The osxphotos author is a MacPorts user too, but isn’t familiar with creating 
> Portfiles and currently doesn’t have time to learn how to set this up [2].
> 
> Sadly I am not familiar enough with the Python world to know how to create a 
> Portfile for osxphotos. Does someone here think MacPorts could install 
> osxphotos without using an intermediary package manager like pipx? If someone 
> would be willing to create an initial Portfile for osxphotos I wouldn’t mind 
> volunteering to keep it up to date. Let me know if you’d like to help out 
> with getting this going.
> 
> Nils.
> 
> [0] https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos 
> <https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos>
> [1] https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos#installation 
> <https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos#installation>
> [2] 
> https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos/issues/1199#issuecomment-1709435930 
> <https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos/issues/1199#issuecomment-1709435930>

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