Re: Splitting the guide

2008-03-04 Thread Thomas Reifferscheid
Hi, great work Simon! For doing this automatically (e.g. every night), we could need some kind of shell (bash) script doing this. Do you think thats possible for fully automation? Kind regards Thomas Simon Ruderich wrote: [...] > Hi all, > sorry for the late reply. > > I just created a chunked

Re: Splitting the guide

2008-03-04 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 02:46:33PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Hey guys! >> >>The guide is advancing so nicely that I'm afraid we've hit the >> point when it's maybe becoming a tad too large for a single page, wouldn't >> y'all think? >> >>Every time I have to load a s

Re: ghc port vanished

2008-03-04 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Daniel, On Mar 4, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Mar 4, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: >> Failed to parse file lang/ghc/Portfile: Error evaluating variants > > It's because portindex runs on a 10.5 ppc machine, and the ghc port > specifically errors out on that platform.

Re: ghc port vanished

2008-03-04 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Adam, On Mar 4, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Gregory Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I checked in a version bump of ghc to 6.8.2 yesterday. The portfile >> is in the svn >> repo, but someone emailed me to say that it did not a

Re: ghc port vanished

2008-03-04 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 4, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: Failed to parse file lang/ghc/Portfile: Error evaluating variants It's because portindex runs on a 10.5 ppc machine, and the ghc port specifically errors out on that platform. I've checked in an update that wraps the error return in a pre-fetch

Re: ghc port vanished

2008-03-04 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Gregory Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I checked in a version bump of ghc to 6.8.2 yesterday. The portfile > is in the svn > repo, but someone emailed me to say that it did not appear in their > dports tree. > I notice as well that it is missi

ghc port vanished

2008-03-04 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi, I checked in a version bump of ghc to 6.8.2 yesterday. The portfile is in the svn repo, but someone emailed me to say that it did not appear in their dports tree. I notice as well that it is missing from the "available ports" on the web page. Did something go awry or should just advi

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-04 Thread James Berry
Thanks to everybody who pitched ideas for GSoC 2008. Now the rubber needs to meet the road. We need: - Somebody to head up our GSoC 2008 effort (get us signed up with Google, document the proposed projects, etc). - And committed mentors for any projects. Volunteers? As Paul Gu

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-04 Thread Rainer Müller
js wrote: > I wrote the Filename hierarchy standard for MacPorts. > I know there's already porthier(7), but I thought it would be nice > to have more specific standard. So is this meant to replace porthier(7)? Than you should write it up as a patch for the manual page. I don't think we need yet a

Re: RFC: Changing apache2 to install its files to /opt/local/ instead of /opt/local/apache2

2008-03-04 Thread Rainer Müller
js wrote: >> Do you mean dbmmanage.1{apache,apache20,apache2}.gz? That would be good. >> Then you can read the man pages by using e.g. man 1apache2 dbmmanage. > > I feel a bit odd, though. > I prefer python's style. > - /opt/local/share/man/man1/python2.5.1.gz > - /opt/local/share/man/man1/p

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
js wrote: > I am really like to hear from all of you. > Any comments, suggestions and even critique would be appreciated. ... > Everything installed by MacPorts must be in /opt/local or > /Applications/MacPorts. The former is used for non-aqua applications > and may be changed by modifying macpor

RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-04 Thread js
Hi, I wrote the Filename hierarchy standard for MacPorts. I know there's already porthier(7), but I thought it would be nice to have more specific standard. As you can see, this standard is still incomplete intentionally, becauses this kind of task should be not done in solely and I'd like to chec

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

2008-03-04 Thread js
Then, is my request rejected? Who has the power to decide this kind of issue? On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 w

Re: RFC: Changing apache2 to install its files to /opt/local/ instead of /opt/local/apache2

2008-03-04 Thread js
> >> The apache port should be able to coexist with either the apache2 or > >> the apache20 port. Currently, they cannot coexist: > >> > >> $ sudo port activate apache > >> Password: > >> ---> Activating apache > >> Error: port activate failed: Image error: /opt/local/share/man/man1/

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-04 Thread Randall Wood
On 2/29/08, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-04 Thread Randall Wood
On 2/29/08, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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