Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

On 2016-11-06 Rainer Müller wrote: >> Yeah — what is needed, perhaps, is an “App Store” for macports… > Like Pallet, the GUI for MacPorts? Unfortunately it is not in a usable > state at the moment. JPortsUI lets you choose the number of days the ports have been updated within (“What’s new?”

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 01:38 AM, Guido Soranzio wrote: > > > On 2016-11-06 Rainer Müller wrote: >>> Yeah — what is needed, perhaps, is an “App Store” for macports… > >> Like Pallet, the GUI for MacPorts? Unfortunately it is not in a usable >> state at the moment. > > JPortsUI lets you choo

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

> On 6 Nov 2016, at 10:01, Al Varnell wrote: > > It would be even better if it was updated to run using a currently supported > version of Oracle Java rather than requiring legacy (deprecated and less > secure) Apple supplied Java SE 6. I just tested JPortsUI on a fresh install of macOS Sier

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 01:20 AM, Guido Soranzio wrote: > >> On 6 Nov 2016, at 10:01, Al Varnell wrote: >> >> It would be even better if it was updated to run using a currently supported >> version of Oracle Java rather than requiring legacy (deprecated and less >> secure) Apple supplied Java

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

> > JPortsUI lets you choose the number of days the ports have been updated within > (“What’s new?” button). > > The latest binary available dates back to 2013.03 but it is still working and > is much more zippy and stable than Pallet: > . Well - a po

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

> On Nov 6, 2016, at 11:21 AM, Ken Cunningham > wrote: > > But that doesn't take away from the idea that a way of showcasing what > ports are available, how they work, when they were last updated, and > what people think of them would be a good idea. While MacPorts itself could certainly benefi

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

> > > Now to go get a cup of coffee and figure out how to fix this mess... > Ah, wasn't that bad after all. Looks like just all my 'inactive' versions of those ports were taken out. Perhaps that was a cleanup option in there that I didn't notice. Whew! K

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

On 2016-11-06, at 8:21 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > Now to go get a cup of coffee and figure out how to fix this mess... > > > Ken Restore all of /opt from Time Machine? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

> > > While MacPorts itself could certainly benefit from better PR, I do not > see why we should do free advertising for upstream developers. but you see - macports exists to allow people to more easily install the products of these upstream developers. otherwise macports has no use. If you w

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

On Nov 6, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> While MacPorts itself could certainly benefit from better PR, I do not >> see why we should do free advertising for upstream developers. > > but you see - macports exists to allow people to more easily install the > products of these upstre

Use what arpack & atlas variants for use with octave?

I’m reinstalling arpack, atlas, and octave during completion of MacPorts migration to macOS Sierra. On El Capitan, my installed ports included: arpack @3.3.0_3+atlas+gfortran atlas @3.10.2_2 octave @4.0.3_1+app+atlas+docs+fltk+gfortran+graphicsmagick+qt4gui+sound-accelerate-java I b

Re: Use what arpack & atlas variants for use with octave?

On Nov 6, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > I’m reinstalling arpack, atlas, and octave during completion of MacPorts > migration to macOS Sierra. > > On El Capitan, my installed ports included: > >arpack @3.3.0_3+atlas+gfortran >atlas @3.10.2_2 > octave > @4.0.3_1+app+a

Re: Use what arpack & atlas variants for use with octave?

> On Nov 6, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Marius Schamschula wrote: > > > On Nov 6, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Murray Eisenberg > wrote: > >> I’m reinstalling arpack, atlas, and octave during completion of MacPorts >> migration to macOS Sierra. >> >> On El Capitan, my installe

Re: Use what arpack & atlas variants for use with octave?

Murray, The version of gfortran depends on the version of gcc chosen by the compilers port group (currently gcc5). On Nov 6, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> >> On Nov 6, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Marius Schamschula wrote: >> >> >> On Nov 6, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Murray Eisenberg >> wr

Re: Use what arpack & atlas variants for use with octave?

OK, I understand that. But there seems to be a catch: * arpack does offer a +gcc5 variant, yet “sudo port info arpack” lists a build dependency on gcc6. And as you’ve noticed and as I was already aware: * atlas has no +gcc6 variant. Will that be a problem in installing both arpack and at

Re: Use what arpack & atlas variants for use with octave?

Hi, As far as I know, there is no interaction between which compilers are for atlas and what is used for any dependency. I am not sure why Marius thought they need the same Fortran compiler. The atlas port will choose a Fortran compiler on its own if any is available. Using a variant just specifi

Re: Use what arpack & atlas variants for use with octave?

David, Both atlas and arpack are used to build octave, which has a lot of Fortran code. The upstream octave developers always have always recommended using the same 'flavor’ of Fortran throughout. Your comment on arpack made me have a closer look: port info arpack looks rather fishy. The Port

Re: Use what arpack & atlas variants for use with octave?

Hi Marius, I have no idea unfortunately what you are talking about regarding the arpack Portfile. Yes, the compilers portgroup sets up all the dependencies. What exactly seems problematic to you? David On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Marius Schamschula wrote: > David, > > Both atlas and arpack

Re: Macports needs a little marketing

Hi, author of JPortsUI here. JPortsUI can run on all newer versions (7 & 8) of the JRE but I've kept compatibility with JRE6 for any Lion or Snow Leopard users out there as Oracle does not deploy JRE8 to platforms older than OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. I still test JPortsUI to insure compatibility wi

Re: Macports needs a little marketing

Newbie here: how it is different from Pallet? I don't know if pallet is still developed as no one seems to talk about it, Enviado desde mi iPhone > El 7 nov 2016, a las 1:16, Stephen Baber escribió: > > Hi, author of JPortsUI here. JPortsUI can run on all newer versions > (7 & 8) of the JRE bu