Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

2016-11-08 Thread Clemens Lang
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 08:26:21PM +0100, Bachsau wrote: > Stable, as I see it, means every port in every available variant > builds out of the box That alone is not testable. For example, the nginx port has 32 variants. For each variant, you can either enable it, or not, so for each variant you

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

2016-11-08 Thread Bachsau
Am 08.11.2016 um 06:57 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: Also, who decides what is stable? Stable, as I see it, means every port in every available variant builds out of the box and does not have major incompatibilities with other ports. Who decides when to update it? Apple. A new stable version

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

2016-11-08 Thread Ken Cunningham
> > Taking on a labor-intensive editorial role does not make MacPorts better at > installing open-source software. > Although that statement in and of itself is true, I didn’t that as the topic of this email line, nor the standard by which all is to be judged. However - indeed - message

Re: Weird uninstall error

2016-11-08 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Nov 7, 2016, at 7:07 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > (Apologies for possible duplicate) > > Doing my regular "port -u uninstall", I never saw this one before: > >---> Cleaning p5.22-datetime >---> Unable to uninstall p5.22-specio @0.280.0_0, the following ports