Re: Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

2014-09-16 Thread James Linder
On 17 Sep 2014, at 9:52 am, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, James Linder wrote: > all too reminescent of winders: lets see unix uses /, well fum we’ll use \ > > By the way, I would point out that the Mac way was the original one; > per-application menubars were Micro

Re: Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

2014-09-16 Thread Ian Wadham
On 17/09/2014, at 11:52 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, James Linder wrote: > all too reminescent of winders: lets see unix uses /, well fum we’ll use \ > > By the way, I would point out that the Mac way was the original one; > per-application menubars were Microso

Re: Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

2014-09-16 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, James Linder wrote: > lets see unix uses /, well fum we’ll use \ And while I'm at it: all versions of MS-DOS that supported \ *also supported /*. Microsoft even had a migration path planned out, using AVAILDEV and SWITCHAR to begin migrating to something more Un

Re: How install p5-libapreq2 for perl 5.20?

2014-09-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 16, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > this discussion probably belongs on -dev. https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2014-September/028012.html ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http

Re: Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

2014-09-16 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, James Linder wrote: > all too reminescent of winders: lets see unix uses /, well fum we’ll use \ By the way, I would point out that the Mac way was the original one; per-application menubars were Microsoft being different just because Microsoft, and OSF/Motif op

Re: Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

2014-09-16 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, James Linder wrote: > One of the delights of QT for me is the ability to say no to the native > (OSX) way of doing things And if I ever use a program you've written that does that, I hope source is available so I can undo your Linux cultural imperialism. Or if n

Re: Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

2014-09-16 Thread James Linder
On 17 Sep 2014, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >>> You don't need a poll for this. There are OS X interface conventions >>> (including menu arrangement) that programs should conform to in order to be >>> good OS X citizens. >> >> I you want to look at it that wa

Re: mysql56-server: what is basedir? and where put my.cnf?

2014-09-16 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > (1) Right now for my installation of mysql56-server (and mysql56), I've put > all my configuration settings in > >/opt/local/etc/mysql56/my.cnf > >(a) With _no_ setting there for basedir, mysql server and client work just > fi

Re: config files for mysql

2014-09-16 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Sep 15, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > >> What exactly is the relationship among the following files installed by >> mysql56-server? >> >> /private/etc/my_macports.conf >> /opt/local/etc/mysql56/my-new.cnf >> /opt/local

Re: MySQL install steps at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP; what is basedir??

2014-09-16 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Sep 16, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > > On 15 Sep2014, at 5:15 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> ...I haven't been very involved with MySQL in awhile. I handed the MacPorts >> MySQL ports over to Bradley (pixilla) a couple years ago. >> >> I didn't originally write the MAMP wiki

Re: How install p5-libapreq2 for perl 5.20?

2014-09-16 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Sep 15, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >>> I realize the mod_perl.so would be specific to the perl version, that's why >>> I suggested the hypothetical mod_perl2 port would have variants for >>> choosing which perl version to use.

Re: Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

2014-09-16 Thread René J . V . Bertin
A PS to my previous message: I have a strong impression that most "slightly more elaborate" pure Qt applications are much more aware of being cross-platform, and thus don't rely on "TextHeuristic" guessing but instead populate the About and Preferences menu items deliberately. The Qt Creator po