Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Before we get into too many specifics about how this interactive ncurses > interface would look, I'd be more interested in getting some more > non-interactive commands added to MacPorts that would provide the > information on which such an interactive interface would be based. To > start with, in order to properly render the variants, we need MacPorts > to be able to tell us not only what variants are available, but also > what variants conflict with what other variants; what variants the port > wants as defaults; and what variants the user wants as defaults. > > Aaand looking at the ChangeLog, it looks like that's already in 1.8.0, > except for the default variants bit. So that's helpful. Do I have to > parse the output of "port variants" to get it or is there more of an API > that can be used?
What about default variants is missing? The variant metadata is available as $PortInfo(vinfo). - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
