Re: Porting software that wants to build/install its own language bindings

2016-11-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 29 November 2016 at 02:21, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >> On Nov 28, 2016, at 7:31 PM, A. Karl Kornel wrote: >> >> I am looking for advice on how best to handle a port for a program >> that wants to build its own language bindings. >> >> I am writing a port for a program called "hivex", which is a

Re: Porting software that wants to build/install its own language bindings

2016-11-28 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
> On Nov 28, 2016, at 7:31 PM, A. Karl Kornel wrote: > > I am looking for advice on how best to handle a port for a program > that wants to build its own language bindings. > > I am writing a port for a program called "hivex", which is a tool and > an API for manipulating Windows Registry "hive"

Re: Porting software that wants to build/install its own language bindings

2016-11-28 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Karl Kornel wrote: > Yeah, I was thinking about variants, but then how best to things like > Python, with its multiple versions? I could do one variant per version, > but it would be nice if I could avoid that! I have seen a number of ports that do exactly that

Re: Porting software that wants to build/install its own language bindings

2016-11-28 Thread Karl Kornel
On Nov 28, 2016, at 4:32 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:31 PM, A. Karl Kornel wrote: >> What makes this confusing is that additional language support is added by >> `configure` switches (like --with-python and --without-ocaml), so I don't >> think separate Portfil

Re: Porting software that wants to build/install its own language bindings

2016-11-28 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:31 PM, A. Karl Kornel wrote: > What makes this confusing is that additional language support is added by > `configure` switches (like --with-python and --without-ocaml), so I don't > think separate Portfiles would be the best option here. I'm also not sure > if subports

Porting software that wants to build/install its own language bindings

2016-11-28 Thread A. Karl Kornel
Hello! I am looking for advice on how best to handle a port for a program that wants to build its own language bindings. I am writing a port for a program called "hivex", which is a tool and an API for manipulating Windows Registry "hive" files. The API is written in C, but it also is able