Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 10, 2008, at 14:31, Darren Weber wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:16:08PM -0700, rhubbell said: Probably a ridiculous question. (never stopped me before) Is macports always and forever dependent upon Xcode? Can it be

Re: new email address

2008-10-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 11, 2008, at 00:57, Daniel Amiguet wrote on macports-changes: please change my address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the new one [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're talking about your MacPorts mailing list subscriptions, you'll have to change the email address yourself. Please see the pages for

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-11 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: As long as MacPorts builds ports from source, then Xcode is an absolute requirement (for gcc etc). If the day comes that MacPorts distributes binary packages, then Xcode may only be needed by some ports and not MacPorts as a whole. As a guess, the macports

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-11 Thread Anders F Björklund
nox wrote: One reason could be to keep MacPorts fully self-contained, and to cut down on the amount of outside dependencies... ? Currently there is a big grey zone of what's ok to use from system (GCC, X11, etc) and what is not (Perl, Python, etc) I really don't want to have to build or use

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-11 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Jay Levitt : Anders F Björklund wrote: nox wrote: One reason could be to keep MacPorts fully self-contained, and to cut down on the amount of outside dependencies... ? Currently there is a big grey zone of what's ok to use from system (GCC, X11, etc) and what is not (Perl,

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-11 Thread nox
Le 11 oct. 08 à 09:54, Anders F Björklund a écrit : Ryan Schmidt wrote: As long as MacPorts builds ports from source, then Xcode is an absolute requirement (for gcc etc). If the day comes that MacPorts distributes binary packages, then Xcode may only be needed by some ports and not

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-11 Thread Jay Levitt
Anders F Björklund wrote: nox wrote: One reason could be to keep MacPorts fully self-contained, and to cut down on the amount of outside dependencies... ? Currently there is a big grey zone of what's ok to use from system (GCC, X11, etc) and what is not (Perl, Python, etc) I really don't

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 11, 2008, at 07:50, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Another factor (though I think we're just discussing philosphy, not immediate plans): Every port maintainer and core developer uses Xcode. Such a statement had to have an exception: I no longer use Xcode as my powerbook is now dead. I use

Odd upgrade error

2008-10-11 Thread Adam Dershowitz
I had gimp-jp2 0.1_0 installed and just did the upgrade to 2.2.0_0. I got an odd error and I am not sure if it is port error related to jp2 or a more general error related to MacPorts. The odd thing is that the upgrade seemed to work, so I am not sure exactly what the error means, or if I

gimp-user-manual error

2008-10-11 Thread William Davis
error in variants gimp-user-manual: DEBUG: gimp-user-manual 2.4.2_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: gimp-user-manual 0.13_0 is installed DEBUG: Not following dependencies DEBUG: variants to install {} fetch DEBUG: available variants are : universal fetch build without_gimp cs de en es fr hr it

Re: Odd upgrade error

2008-10-11 Thread William Davis
On Oct 12, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Adam Dershowitz wrote: I had gimp-jp2 0.1_0 installed and just did the upgrade to 2.2.0_0. I got an odd error and I am not sure if it is port error related to jp2 or a more general error related to MacPorts. The odd thing is that the upgrade seemed to work, so

Re: Odd upgrade error

2008-10-11 Thread Adam Dershowitz
On Oct 11, 2008, at 9:54 PM, William Davis wrote: On Oct 12, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Adam Dershowitz wrote: I had gimp-jp2 0.1_0 installed and just did the upgrade to 2.2.0_0. I got an odd error and I am not sure if it is port error related to jp2 or a more general error related to