Re: New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Martin Krischik
Zitat von Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jun 11, 2008, at 01:15, Martin Krischik wrote: > >>> I would say, if I had a vote (who does?), that whatever people are willing >>> to use wins. It may not be elegant or state of the art, but the best is the >>> enemy of the good, and good is usuall

Re: New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Randall Wood
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Martin Krischik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zitat von Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Jun 11, 2008, at 01:15, Martin Krischik wrote: >> I would say, if I had a vote (who does?), that whatever people are willing to use wins. It may not be elegant

Re: Output of port info --depends_xyz inconsistent (usually commas but not always)

2008-06-11 Thread Tabitha McNerney
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2008, at 23:28, Tabitha McNerney wrote: > > I have been working on a script (written in Ruby) that takes the output of >> the port command-line program (as suggested by Rainer recently), and parses >> the outp

Re: Output of port info --depends_xyz inconsistent (usually commas but not always)

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2008, at 05:53, Tabitha McNerney wrote: >> I seem to get commas always: >> >> >> $ port info --depends_lib gnome-vfs >> depends_lib: port:gconf, port:dbus, port:openssl, port:libidl, >> port:dbus-glib, port:libxml2, port:libiconv, port:gettext >> $ port info --depends_run gnome-vfs >

Re: FreeTDS

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 2, 2008, at 04:28, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jun 2, 2008, at 01:03, Nathan Brazil wrote: > >> Hi. I see that FreeTDS has no maintainer. The latest portfile >> lists it at version 0.64, while the latest version at http:// >> freetds.org is 0.82. >> >> I have updated and attached the portfil

Re: Output of port info --depends_xyz inconsistent (usually commas but not always)

2008-06-11 Thread Rainer Müller
Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> Are you sure you're using the latest MacPorts? >> 1.6.0 right? > > Oh, I thought for some reason this "port info --depends_foo" stuff > had been added more recently than 1.6.0 and that you were running the > latest version from trunk, as I am. So if the problem exists i

Re: Is "MacPort" a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Rainer Müller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> That's not to say I don't see your point too. "MacPorts port" (and >> "AppleScript script") is long and sounds silly. Would be neat if we >> could come up with a new cute term for our ports. Ruby has gems, for >> instance. What entities could MacPorts have? > > Hmn. Ho

gnome-sharp2 problems

2008-06-11 Thread Rebecca Rebhuhn-Glanz
Hi, I'm trying to install gnome-sharp2 and am getting the following error message when I use 'sudo port install gnome-sharp2': *configure: error: Package requirements (render >= 0.9) were not met. Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standa

Re: New Howto

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Martin Krischik wrote: Note that MediaWiki supports up to 256 name spaces. For example on wikibooks the cookbook runs in it's own name space: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook I think it would be a good idea to have one wiki for - including the homepage. It j

Re: New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > The proposed new wiki was to be a global Mac OS Forge documentation > wiki, not a MacPorts-specific wiki. I'm still not a fan of the idea. > Do we really want to spend the time and energy converting content > from the MacPorts Trac wiki to a Mac

Re: New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 11, 2008, at 1:18 AM, Martin Krischik wrote: > From my quick check I also noted that MacPorts clearly is the largest > Project on MacOS Forge ao we might as well take the lead. Actually, I believe that honor goes to WebKit. :-) It would be nice to have some pageview stats to back that up

Re: Is "MacPort" a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > I dislike 'MacPort', but I like the term 'mport'. I dunno, that just doesn't seem to roll off the tongue and also suffers from excessive contraction at the wrong place. If, for example, you were trying to come up with a more convenient wa

Fwd: New Howto

2008-06-11 Thread Randall Wood
Failed to send to list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Randall Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:55 PM Subject: Re: New Howto To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun

Re: New wiki

2008-06-11 Thread paul beard
Hmm, is it about time for the Bike Shed link to be cited? As a non-committer who has used MacPorts since it was DarwinPorts and used Fink before that, here's my two shiny bits of something or other. I wasn't aware there was large body of documentation to be migrated, so the argument that a new sy

local port tries to download patch files

2008-06-11 Thread kykim_lists
Hi all, I'm trying to make a new Portfile (for the ruby GeoIP module). And I've set up a local ports repository. Inside my local port repository, I've set up a directory with the "Portfile" and a "files" directory that contains patch files. It looks good when I run a "portindex" command. Howeve

Re: New wiki

2008-06-11 Thread Bryan Blackburn
On Jun 11, 2008, at 1:49 PM, paul beard wrote: > ... > Maybe some docs on how to build from the MacPorts trunk, so we can > access all the bug fixes to 1.6, would be a good place to start? > You mean something like The howto page at

Re: Is "MacPort" a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Joshua Root
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Mmm-port is how you'd pronounce mport in english, and I don't think > that's very phonetically pleasing. I've always mentally pronounced it as "emport", with the accent on the first syllable, which isn't too bad. - Josh ___

Re: Is "MacPort" a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2008, at 14:53, Ralph Pass wrote: > Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> For a long time, I thought that when people were saying port, in this discussion, I thought the were referring to a port or a tcp/ ip address. like local

Re: local port tries to download patch files

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2008, at 14:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to make a new Portfile (for the ruby GeoIP module). > And I've set up a local ports repository. > > Inside my local port repository, I've set up a directory > with the "Portfile" and a "files" directory that contains > patch files.

Re: Is "MacPort" a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2008, at 17:30, Joshua Root wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> Mmm-port is how you'd pronounce mport in english, and I don't think >> that's very phonetically pleasing. > > I've always mentally pronounced it as "emport", with the accent on the > first syllable, which isn't too bad.

Re: Is "MacPort" a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 11, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > That can be our new verb. "I need to emport that new software." > > A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man... OK, consider my mind changed in just 2 lines. :-) - Jordan ___ macports-users mailing

Re: Is "MacPort" a valid term?

2008-06-11 Thread markd
>> I dislike 'MacPort', but I like the term 'mport'. > >I dunno, that just doesn't seem to roll off the tongue and also >suffers from excessive contraction at the wrong place. If, for >example, you were trying to come up with a more convenient way of >distinguishing "pickup truck" from "semi tract