Re: puthon curses on NetBSD

2018-12-17 Thread Matthew Selsky via devel
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 03:01:06PM -0800, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > > I am unaware of any other Python libraries not in the base Python that > NTPsec uses. For some reason *BSD don't like curses. > > You know any other used Python packages not in the base Python? What about the "gps"

Re: puthon curses on NetBSD

2018-12-17 Thread Matthew Selsky via devel
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 01:55:16PM -0800, Hal Murray via devel wrote: > > James Browning said: > > IIRC OpenSUSE does the same thing. I don't recall seeing a streak of red > > build fail indicators though. Possibly because I seem to remember adding it > > to the CI file.

Re: puthon curses on NetBSD

2018-12-17 Thread Hal Murray via devel
James Browning said: > IIRC OpenSUSE does the same thing. I don't recall seeing a streak of red > build fail indicators though. Possibly because I seem to remember adding it > to the CI file. Thanks. Are you in a position to test buildprep on OpenSUSE and/or friends? It looks to me like it

Re: puthon curses on NetBSD

2018-12-12 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 12/11/18 1:37 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > First we need to start including better dependency info for different > distros in the INSTALL file. Without that we don't know which packages > to look at. I wasn't aware of, until this thread, or had forgotten the ntpmon curses

Re: puthon curses on NetBSD

2018-12-11 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:45:11 -0800 Hal Murray via devel wrote: > > Gary E. Miller via devel : > >> ntpmon should not required, but very strongly encouraged. So test > >> for pythong curses, complain loudly when not found, but do not > >> fail at that point. > > > +1 > > Why do

Re: puthon curses on NetBSD

2018-12-11 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> Gary E. Miller via devel : >> ntpmon should not required, but very strongly encouraged. So test for >> pythong curses, complain loudly when not found, but do not fail at that >> point. > +1 Why do you say that? I don't care what the answer is. That seems like the sort of code you like

Re: puthon curses on NetBSD

2018-12-11 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:00:20 -0800 Hal Murray via devel wrote: > Should we rip out the test for python curses? That makes curses a > requirement for a clean build. If you rip out the test for curses, then you have to rip out ntpmon. ntpmon should not required, but very strongly

Re: puthon curses on NetBSD

2018-12-11 Thread James Browning via devel
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 3:00 AM Hal Murray via devel > I don't know why I didn't figure this out ages ago, but ... > > It's in a separate package rather than the main python package. > > Should we rip out the test for python curses? That makes curses a > requirement > for a clean build. > > Or are

puthon curses on NetBSD

2018-12-11 Thread Hal Murray via devel
I don't know why I didn't figure this out ages ago, but ... It's in a separate package rather than the main python package. Should we rip out the test for python curses? That makes curses a requirement for a clean build. Or are there other similar things that might be optional? Should we