(sorry for the dupe email ryan)
“how do i do that?” (submit a pull request) lol i remember our beloved ppc
crank barracuda told me to do the same thing for folly and i didn’t know how.
i’m just kidding on expecting you to answer that here though, as i
know/hope/suspect bing will tell me how to do it.
- and i’m pretty sure you guys will have some documentation, probably
from like 20 years ago (and is still probably current haha) that explains how
to do it.
but yes i think my proposed changes for nodejs14-nodejs18 should probably be
upstreamed sooner rather than later.
i want to test on nodejs19+ but i’m super-paranoid after moving from a MacPro
5,1 (velociraptor raid) to an iMacPro, and don’t want to incur another \gtrsim
150gigs (maybe more, probably more) from building.
even though smartctl tells me i have 99% life, i’ve used a few terabytes in the
couple of weeks from going hard on firefox and also rebuilding node a few times
(filled my VM disk as the build files showed haha)
so i am planning to get a sata ssd to ease that, and i wanted to test my
changes by building them once-over to be sure before the upstream.
Thanks,
Gagan
> On Sep 29, 2024, at 2:28 PM, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Sep 29, 2024, at 07:13, Gagan Sidhu wrote:
>
>> you are correct that users are able to build “any software you want”, but
>> only with some involved _EDITS_ of the _CURRENT_ portfiles of the
>> aforementioned ports.
>
>> are we expecting the macports user to know how to do all of this?
>
>> with some maintenance of existing portfiles for popular software, i think
>> macports popularity could increase significantly
>
> Certainly it is not expected for *every user* to need to know how to build a
> given piece of software. The whole point of MacPorts is that only *one user*
> needs to figure it out. They encode that knowledge into a portfile so that
> then every other user can build that software by just asking MacPorts to do
> it. So if you know of any problem in any port and know how to fix it, please
> submit a pull request so that everyone can benefit. That's how this whole
> thing works. Nothing gets done unless someone contributes it.
>
>
