On Oct 20, 2019, at 05:42, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Hi, I’m using MacPorts for many years, but I’m new on this list.
>
> A few days ago I was building SCM Workbench[1] on MacPorts Python 3.7
> (because the binary package was expecting python.org Frameworks to be
> installed). The project uses dmgbuild[2], and there were ports for all(?)
> versions of Python.
>
> py37-dmgbuild didn’t work, because the port used an old state of dmgbuild
> that was Py2 only, but py27-dmgbuild did the job.
>
> Today I wanted to document the process – and the ports were gone!
>
> I looked for "dmgbuild" in all mailing list, tracker and github commit
> messages and found only:
>
> * https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/56662/main.log (dmgbuild used
> as an external tool)
> * https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/59137/vlc_build_log_clang8.log
> (dmgbuild not found)
>
> (I used Google with "site:" as well as site searches.)
>
> Does anyone know why these ports were removed (instead of updated maybe) or
> how I could find out more?
>
> Best regards, Hraban
>
> [1] https://github.com/barry-scott/scm-workbench
> [2] https://github.com/al45tair/dmgbuild
I also can't find any trace of a py-dmgbuild in MacPorts. Are you sure it
existed? If you had a py-dmgbuild portfile, is it possible you wrote it
yourself, or downloaded it from some place other than MacPorts?
