On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Aljaž Srebrnič wrote:
> On 31/lug/2012, at 00:30, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> Hi Mojca, Sorry I'm late, i was "out of the civilization" until some days ago 
> ;)

I hope that details follow off-list ;)

>> AquaTerm has moved to GitHub and new version has been released. I
>> attached the revised Portfile here:
>>    http://trac.macports.org/ticket/34346
>>
>> However, it would be very helpful to patch gnuplot before upgrading
>> AquaTerm. I uploaded this patch about three months ago (today I only
>> refreshed it to reflect the latest change in gnuplot) and I would be
>> really grateful for any kind of feedback:
>>    
>> http://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/34423/gnuplot-use-aqt-framework-extra-option.patch
>
> I am no autoconf expert, however I know it a little, all your patches make 
> sense to me.
>
>> The patch is needed in order to be able to get rid of
>> libaquaterm.dylib & header files (replaced by AquaTerm.framework)
>>
>> I'm the maintainer of gnuplot port (without commit rights) and from my
>> perspective I consider the patch ready to be committed (there is no
>> need for rebuild gnuplot since gnuplot already links against
>> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework/Versions/A/AquaTerm),
>> so if any developer with commit rights is comfortable with the patch,
>> I would like to request commiting it.
>
> I'll commit it then, with your approval.

Then please do. Thank you.

>>
>> ------
>>
>> The new version of AquaTerm might be interested for the following reasons:
>> - support for transparency
>> - universal binaries (like running i386 gnuplot with x86_64 AquaTerm)
>> don't have problems any more
>> - in 1.1.0 (which never made it into MacPorts) the first plot
>> following "set term aqua size x,y" would be typeset with transparent
>> (=invisible) labels and sometimes plot wouldn't be cleared
>> - no need to patch xcodeproject
>
> Since AquaTerm is under maintainership of mcalhoun, let's see what he/she 
> thinks of it!

I first tried to reach him in March 2011. I wrote him emails in 16
different threads (one to several emails per thread) and never
received any single response from him. Not even a single sign of life.
I guess that other developers who have been following development
longer must know more.

I believe the patches are way beyond the 72 hours of "maintainer
timeout" limit, so they should be legally safe to commit ;). There has
been no single response to
    http://trac.macports.org/ticket/34346
for approximately four months. I was actually thinking of filing a
port abandonment ticket for AquaTerm eventually.

> Also, I see that your commits were pulled in, does that mean that the patches 
> to AquaTerm are now obsolete?

Which commits do you have in mind? Any patches under "files" can go if
that is what you are asking.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to look at all the patches,
    Mojca

(un)related: I'm fighting with another issue which I believe must be
some PackageMaker's bug. If someone would install AquaTerm with
MacPorts first and then with an official installer, the installed
AquaTerm.app would end up overwriting
/Applications/MacPorts/AquaTerm.app instead of being placed under
/Applications/AquaTerm.app. Here's an exact description from 2007:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2007/Dec/msg00040.html
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