Call for Mentors - GSoC 2019

2019-01-13 Thread Umesh Singla
Hello all, The Google Summer of Code has started accepting applications from organizations. The deadline for the same is January 13, this Monday. I would like to invite everyone involved with MacPorts who would like to volunteer as mentors for students to help integrate them into the open source

Re: Online meeting today at 15:00 UTC (in 4 hours)

2019-01-13 Thread Umesh Singla
Thanks for the summary. Also, were we able to decide on the GSoC-admin? I have put the call for mentors email for now to avoid further delays. But let's decide soon, so we have someone actively looking into it. Umesh On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:56 AM Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hi, > > Here's the s

Re: Online meeting today at 15:00 UTC (in 4 hours)

2019-01-13 Thread Jackson Isaac
On Sun 13 Jan, 2019, 14:52 Umesh Singla Thanks for the summary. > > Also, were we able to decide on the GSoC-admin? I have put the call for > mentors email for now to avoid further delays. But let's decide soon, so we > have someone actively looking into it. > > Umesh, since you showed interest in

Help with a Portfile

2019-01-13 Thread iEFdev
Hi, I'd like to get some help with a Portfile, and have a couple of questions. 1: When using git.setup, with a commit as the 3'rd var, like: github.setup Foo Bar a1b2c3d4 I didn't get it to work (download), but I could use it with: fetch.type git How does that work with checksum (when cloning r

Re: Online meeting today at 15:00 UTC (in 4 hours)

2019-01-13 Thread Umesh Singla
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 3:21 PM Jackson Isaac wrote: > On Sun 13 Jan, 2019, 14:52 Umesh Singla >> Thanks for the summary. >> >> Also, were we able to decide on the GSoC-admin? I have put the call for >> mentors email for now to avoid further delays. But let's decide soon, so we >> have someone a

Re: Online meeting today at 15:00 UTC (in 4 hours)

2019-01-13 Thread Jackson Isaac
On Sun 13 Jan, 2019, 15:59 Umesh Singla On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 3:21 PM Jackson Isaac > wrote: > >> On Sun 13 Jan, 2019, 14:52 Umesh Singla > >>> Thanks for the summary. >>> >>> Also, were we able to decide on the GSoC-admin? I have put the call for >>> mentors email for now to avoid further dela

Re: Help with a Portfile

2019-01-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Eric, On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 11:04, iEFdev wrote: > > I'd like to get some help with a Portfile, and have a couple of questions. > > 1: When using git.setup, with a commit as the 3'rd var, like: github.setup > Foo Bar a1b2c3d4 > > I didn't get it to work (download), but I could use it with:

Re: bikeshedding the older systems...

2019-01-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 12:22, Marius Schamschula wrote: > > I would also suggest that Ken either adds himself as a co-maintainer To a few hundred ports all at once? :) I do believe he should become a comaintainer of all the clang & related ports though. He did become a competent successor of the

Re: Online meeting today at 15:00 UTC (in 4 hours)

2019-01-13 Thread Ruben Di Battista
Just as suggestion, there's a package manager named Spack that is quite similar to Macports (and Brew) that is made for HPC deployment on clusters, but I'm also using it for installing software on Linux in my $HOME when I don't have admin rights. It works already for Mac and it basically has all

Re: Online meeting today at 15:00 UTC (in 4 hours)

2019-01-13 Thread Umesh Singla
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 4:07 PM Jackson Isaac wrote: > > > On Sun 13 Jan, 2019, 15:59 Umesh Singla >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 3:21 PM Jackson Isaac >> wrote: >> >>> On Sun 13 Jan, 2019, 14:52 Umesh Singla >> wrote: >>> Thanks for the summary. Also, were we able to decide on the G

Re: Help with a Portfile

2019-01-13 Thread iEFdev
Hi Mojca, Thank you so much for your reply and help… On 1/13/19 12:27 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > When you use github.setup, a tarball is fetched directly from the > GitHub server, without resorting to git in any way, and works as if > you fetched the sources from elsewhere. > > When you use git di

Re: Help with a Portfile

2019-01-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Eric, On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 14:32, iEFdev wrote: > > there is that other thing - that the commit I used is the last one made, and > it's ≈ 2 years newer than last release. (Intermediate comment: since you are probably not packaging some proprietary software, it could be easier to explain t

Re: Online meeting today at 15:00 UTC (in 4 hours)

2019-01-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 12:45, Ruben Di Battista wrote: > > Just as suggestion, there's a package manager named Spack that is quite > similar to Macports (and Brew) that is made for HPC deployment on clusters, > but I'm also using it for installing software on Linux in my $HOME when I > don't hav

Re: Help with a Portfile

2019-01-13 Thread Joshua Root
On 2019-1-14 01:11 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 14:32, iEFdev wrote: >> >> there is that other thing - that the commit I used is the last one made, and >> it's ≈ 2 years newer than last release. > > This is often a perfectly valid usecase for fetching the source from > git. Yo

Re: Help with a Portfile

2019-01-13 Thread iEFdev
Hi Mojca and Josh, On 1/13/19 15:11 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> But maybe one could take one of the releases, and create an additional patch >> from the last commit - just to get up to date? I dont' think it's that many >> commits behind. :) > This is of course also possible, it depends on the i

Re: Help with a Portfile

2019-01-13 Thread Joshua Root
On 2019-1-14 14:04 , iEFdev wrote: > On 1/14/19 0:50 , Joshua Root wrote: >> GitHub will generate a tarball for any commit you name, so there's no >> need to use fetch.type git in this case. > > // https://github.com/ByteInternet/libapache-mod-fastcgi/ > > github.setupByteInternet libapac

Re: Help with a Portfile

2019-01-13 Thread iEFdev
Hi Josh, Thanks for looking at it. :+1: I put the files here in a tmp branch of my macports-ports fork: https://github.com/iEFdev/macports-ports/tree/4josh/www/libapache2_mod_fastcgi Well if it works for you, just like that - I guess that SSL-error is the bad one then? · Eric On 1/14/19 6:10

Re: Help with a Portfile

2019-01-13 Thread Joshua Root
On 2019-1-14 17:03 , iEFdev wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Thanks for looking at it.  :+1: > > I put the files here in a tmp branch of my macports-ports fork: > https://github.com/iEFdev/macports-ports/tree/4josh/www/libapache2_mod_fastcgi So, fetching and patching work fine for me with your Portfile.fet