On 2016-10-07 19:07, Marcel Bischoff wrote: > On 16/10/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> The problem is: somebody needs to do the correct work to update each of >> those ports to the latest version. In many cases, tickets are already >> filed, and you can look them up to see what the current status is; if >> you don't find a ticket, please file a new one. In some cases, such as >> boost, pandoc, ghc, there are serious issues preventing the update. If >> Homebrew has solved those problems, great, maybe we can crib from them. > > Again, I was under the impression that to be a port maintainer you would > actually need to maintain the port. In this case, checking out what > Homebrew is doing and trying to implement it the MacPort way. As this > does not appear to be the case, I guess when things are broken, they are > just considered being broken.
Anybody can get listed as maintainer, making the promise to do that. However, when they are not actually keeping it up-to-date, there is little we can do about it. After following the port abandonment policy, will will drop the port back to "nomaintainer", leaving you in the same situation. > I don't see any concrete discussion as to why certain ports would not > build, nor any kind of coordination between different port maintainers. > This may very well be my fault due to selective perception on my part. > I'm just a bit confised as to why one project can figure it out while > another lags months or years behind in certain areas. As soon as I figure out why a port does not build, I might just commit a fix instead of writing lengthy discussions on that. :-) > I'll be sure to devote some time to help solve long-standing issues. The > proper mailing list to discuss those issues is this one I presume? Yes, definitely. Comments on commits will be discussed here as well as discussions originally started at tickets that will require more help from others. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
