Re: how to maintain multiple active versions of a port (e.g. octave)?

2016-09-23 Thread Ken Cunningham
> > One last question … can you give me a quick idea of how much work would be > involved in me attempting to locally implement the first approach you > mentioned (different ports for different versions of octave). That is, > starting with the files for the 3.8.2 revision of the octave port, wh

Re: how to maintain multiple active versions of a port (e.g. octave)?

2016-09-23 Thread Chris Jones
One last question … can you give me a quick idea of how much work would be involved in me attempting to locally implement the first approach you mentioned (different ports for different versions of octave). That is, starting with the files for the 3.8.2 revision of the octave port, what would

Re: how to maintain multiple active versions of a port (e.g. octave)?

2016-09-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
On Sep 23, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Sep 23, 2016, at 09:04, Ray Zimmerman wrote: >> >>> To build a previous version of a port: >>> >>> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort >>> >>> You can

Re: how to maintain multiple active versions of a port (e.g. octave)?

2016-09-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Sep 23, 2016, at 09:04, Ray Zimmerman wrote: > >> To build a previous version of a port: >> >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort >> >> You can have multiple versions of a port installed at the same time, but >> only one a

Re: how to maintain multiple active versions of a port (e.g. octave)?

2016-09-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
>> and install Octave on my system and was wondering what is the best way to … >> >> (1) keep older versions of a port when the port is updated to use a new >> version of the sources. E.g. the octave port was using octave 3.8.0 sources >> and has recently changed to 4.0

Re: how to maintain multiple active versions of a port (e.g. octave)?

2016-09-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
gt; > (1) keep older versions of a port when the port is updated to use a new > version of the sources. E.g. the octave port was using octave 3.8.0 sources > and has recently changed to 4.0.3. How can I keep the 3.8.0 version available > (I can create differently named symlinks to po

how to maintain multiple active versions of a port (e.g. octave)?

2016-09-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
I am the developer of a Matlab/Octave package that I need to test against multiple versions of Matlab and Octave. I’ve been using MacPorts to build and install Octave on my system and was wondering what is the best way to … (1) keep older versions of a port when the port is updated to use a

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 19, 2010, at 09:27, Thomas De Contes wrote: > Le 19 janv. 10 à 03:59, Joshua Root a écrit : > >> Why even check it out with svn? Just use the appropriate archive tarball. > > thank you for the link, it should be fine :-) > sorry, i didn't look at it seriously enough, like ryan Yes, I kne

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-19 Thread Thomas De Contes
Le 19 janv. 10 à 03:59, Joshua Root a écrit : On 2010-1-19 13:22 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 18, 2010, at 20:11, Thomas De Contes wrote: Old versions of MacPorts and snapshots of the ports tree are available via http from or

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-18 Thread Joshua Root
On 2010-1-19 14:19 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2010, at 20:59, Joshua Root wrote: > >> Why even check it out with svn? Just use the appropriate archive tarball. > > Where do we keep them? I could only find the daily tarball, not historical > versions. Right next to the other base down

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 18, 2010, at 20:59, Joshua Root wrote: > Why even check it out with svn? Just use the appropriate archive tarball. Where do we keep them? I could only find the daily tarball, not historical versions. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-us

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-18 Thread Joshua Root
On 2010-1-19 13:22 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jan 18, 2010, at 20:11, Thomas De Contes wrote: > >>> Old versions of MacPorts and snapshots of the ports tree are available >>> via http from or >>> . >>

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 18, 2010, at 20:11, Thomas De Contes wrote: >> Old versions of MacPorts and snapshots of the ports tree are available >> via http from or >> . > > well, maybe i could get the sources with a co

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-18 Thread Thomas De Contes
Le 18 janv. 10 à 01:41, Joshua Root a écrit : On 2010-1-18 11:15 , Thomas De Contes wrote: if i want gtk2 version 2.18.2 stable, should i use the n° 58949 or the n° 61377 ? You want the latest svn revision in which the version was 2.18.2. so, for example, for the version 2.16.6 it is the

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-17 Thread Joshua Root
On 2010-1-18 11:15 , Thomas De Contes wrote: > > if i want gtk2 version 2.18.2 stable, > should i use the n° 58949 or the n° 61377 ? You want the latest svn revision in which the version was 2.18.2. > btw, > i'm on 10.4, and i see that macports is no longer compatible with 10.3 > > do you know

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-17 Thread Thomas De Contes
Le 17 janv. 10 à 18:43, Ryan Schmidt a écrit : On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:07, Thomas De Contes wrote: hi :-) how to know which versions are available for a given port ? The only version available is the one shown by "port info". is it possible to install an older version of a port when it

Re: versions of a port

2010-01-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:07, Thomas De Contes wrote: > hi :-) > > > how to know which versions are available for a given port ? The only version available is the one shown by "port info". > is it possible to install an older version of a port when it is already > installed, or have i to unins

versions of a port

2010-01-17 Thread Thomas De Contes
hi :-) how to know which versions are available for a given port ? is it possible to install an older version of a port when it is already installed, or have i to uninstall it first ? -- Téléassistance / Télémaintenance http://www.portparallele.com/ThomasDECONTES/