On 2022-05-14, at 8:38 AM, Marius Schamschula <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mkhexgrid has not been updated upstream since 2007. Exactly. So I'm trying to understand how installing something so old/basic like that caused a reinstall of so many pieces in Macports. I was expecting little more than downloading it, and maybe one or two libraries. > > Marius > -- > Marius Schamschula > > > > >> On May 14, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So I thought I'd install a simple little hex map generator. Mkhexgrid. >> >> Hasn't been updated in years, should be simple, right? >> >> Three versions of Python (37, 38, and 39) >> A full reinstall of X >> >> I mean, I can sort-of understand perl, one python, and ssl -- maybe it >> needed to rebuild something, and needed updated ssh fetching and rebuilding >> the compilation environment. >> >> But everything else? And three versions of python? And not just python 2 vs >> python 3. >> >> I'm assuming that somewhere, some graphical library was being used that >> could output to X as well as to ascii/curses. I just have no idea what. >> >> All I wanted was to generate a PNG hexmap. >> At least it was able to fetch binaries for pretty much everything, and not >> compile everything. >> > --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce
