How should MacPorts show users instruction messages (was: user instructions - was ... mysql5 + php5 + apache2)

2008-02-29 Thread js
I don't think this is not worth the effort. if there were a way to provide instrictions, it would encourages developer to write more messages I suppose. On 2/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that if you do miss these messages, then you can't easily

Trac ticket that need your attension

2008-02-29 Thread js
The folllowing tickets has been unchanged more than 3 days. Please review/commit them. ipython http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14360 twisted http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14375 python_select http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14452

Re: How should MacPorts show users instruction messages (was: user instructions - was ... mysql5 + php5 + apache2)

2008-02-29 Thread Rainer Müller
js wrote: I don't think this is not worth the effort. if there were a way to provide instrictions, it would encourages developer to write more messages I suppose. One option would be to simply hold back any message until all ports installed and output them afterwards. So all messages would be

Macports open tickets

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Reifferscheid
As some of you might allready know, there are some graphs showing the macports open tickets over time. You find the graphs here: http://student.physik.uni-mainz.de/~reiffert/macports/ Feel free to comment or improve. You'll find all the details on that site. Kind regards Thomas

Re: How should MacPorts show users instruction messages

2008-02-29 Thread js
For this rather long nedi help, I would prefer to put them into some file like /opt/local/share/doc/nedi/INSTALL.macports and just print a message that there is additional help in this file. I like this idea. On 3/1/08, Rainer Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: +1 +1 for what?

user    instructions - was ... mysql5 + php5 + apache2

2008-02-29 Thread markd
I don't think this is not worth the effort. if there were a way to provide instrictions, it would encourages developer to write more messages I suppose. Sure, but analogous to port developers making patches that they don't try to send to upstream developers is a problem, making our own docs

Re: How should MacPorts show users instruction messages

2008-02-29 Thread Rainer Müller
js wrote: +1 +1 for what? I just mentioned two possibilities how to solve this and we did not even gather additional ideas. This is not the time for voting yet. If you meant one particular idea, please use inline-replying to make that clear. Rainer

Re: How should MacPorts show users instruction messages (was: user instructions - was ... mysql5 + php5 + apache2)

2008-02-29 Thread js
+1 On 2/29/08, Rainer Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: js wrote: I don't think this is not worth the effort. if there were a way to provide instrictions, it would encourages developer to write more messages I suppose. One option would be to simply hold back any message until all ports

Re: py-twistedweb2 and py25-twisted-web2 uses different name convension

2008-02-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 29, 2008, at 14:33, Kevin Ballard wrote: On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 29, 2008, at 09:20, js wrote: I noticed that twisted for python2.4 and 2.5 uses different name convension. I opened new ticket http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/

Google SoC 2008

2008-02-29 Thread James Berry
I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ . You might be inclined to address any of the following questions: - Do you feel MacPorts should participate in GSoC 2008?

question about adding distfiles to svn

2008-02-29 Thread markd
I need to add a port to distfiles in the svn repo, but how do I do it without checking out the whole distfiles/ directory? Mark ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org

Re: question about adding distfiles to svn

2008-02-29 Thread Blair Zajac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to add a port to distfiles in the svn repo, but how do I do it without checking out the whole distfiles/ directory? Mark Use $ svn co -N URL and you'll have an empty directory. Delete this wc after you're done with it, they're not completely supported

Re: question about adding distfiles to svn

2008-02-29 Thread Rainer Müller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to add a port to distfiles in the svn repo, but how do I do it without checking out the whole distfiles/ directory? svn import $PATH $URL But this way you can only add one file at a time. Rainer ___ macports-dev