Thanks for the reply - was very helpful. I think I managed to modify the port file accordingly, however my first attempt was foiled by the unpublishing of Monday’s version. I’ll wait and see if Tuesday’s sticks around and then try to get the update committed to macports.
Peter On 10 Jun 2014, at 13:42, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for that, Peter. Should have given you the heads-up. > > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Peter Brommer <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hiya, > > I’m the maintainer of the jmol port for macports. This means that I provide a > file that tells the macports system where it can download the current version > of jmol (I attached a sample port file, just so you get an idea). > Unfortunately, it seems that the naming convention for Jmol binaries has > changed with the last release 14.0.17. Instead of Jmol-14.0.17-binary.tar.gz > (or Jmol-${version}-binary.tar.gz in general), the archive is now called > Jmol-14.0.17_2014.06.09-binary.tar.gz. This means that macports no longer > finds the binary from the port file its current form, the port is now broken > and I need to fix it. > > In order to do that properly, the answers to a number of questions would be > very helpful. > > Is this a permanent change, i.e. will all future releases be named in that > fashion (or at least until further notice)? > > > yes. I want to be able to upload nightly/weekly changes without advancing the > minor version number. > > Would you consider going back to the old way of naming distribution files? > > I'd prefer not to. > > What is the actual version number? Is it 14.0.17 or is it 14.0.17_2014.06.09? > > > the latter, the long version. > > Will there ever be two binaries with the same first part of the version > number, but a different date in the second part? > > > absolutely. That's the whole idea. > > > Thank you! > > Peter > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Peter Brommer e-mail: [email protected] > Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 > 7AL UK > Phone: +44 (0) 24 761 51862 Office: PS 1.42 > Homepage: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/pbrommer > PGP Key: 2048R/B6DEA483 Fingerprint: 5B6F F30A 9999 79C0 16CD 939E B406 9D2A > B6DE A483 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions > Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems > Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. > Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > > > > > -- > Robert M. Hanson > Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry > Chair, Department of Chemistry > St. Olaf College > Northfield, MN > http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr > > > If nature does not answer first what we want, > it is better to take what answer we get. > > -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions > Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems > Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. > Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems_______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Peter Brommer e-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL UK Phone: +44 (0) 24 761 51862 Office: PS 1.42 Homepage: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/pbrommer PGP Key: 2048R/B6DEA483 Fingerprint: 5B6F F30A 9999 79C0 16CD 939E B406 9D2A B6DE A483 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
