Re: Ethereum

2018-01-16 Thread Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT & Internet) via macports-users
Am 17. Januar 2018 03:45:22 MEZ schrieb Terry Barnum : >(eth) with "brew install ethereum". I couldn't find geth, eth or >ethereum in macports. Any plans to add these? I think there is a misunderstanding. Macports contributions / ports usually come from the community - i.e. the developers or m

Ethereum

2018-01-16 Thread Terry Barnum
I was poking around on Udemy looking at courses on ethereum smart contracts the other night. One looked promising but watching the course preview video showed setting up the dev environment with "brew tap ethereum/ethereum" and then installing the Go (geth) and C++ clients (eth) with "brew insta

can macports be less strict with aux packages download?

2018-01-16 Thread islaind via macports-users
can macports be less strict with aux packages download? --- (on osx 10.8.5, port version 2.4.2) In installing xpdf 'port' decides to install perl 5.24 (I have already installed perl 5.22) then requires to install OpenMotif which in turn prompts

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 16 06:16:07, ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am stuck with 10.5.8 on this particular machine anyway. > > Are you sure about that? Even my most ancient intel machines, 32bit, can go > up past there. > even a macbook 1,1 can do 10.6.8 > https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macboo

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2018-01-16, at 6:24 AM, Marius Schamschula wrote: > > I just checked: a Core Duo is limited to 10.5.8 only if it has less than 1GB > of RAM, but can run 10.6.8 otherwise. > > Marius To get reasonable performance out of these machines I always max out the Ram (cheap cheap cheap on Ebay) and

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Marius Schamschula
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 8:16 AM, Ken Cunningham > wrote: > > > >> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary wrote: >> >> On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: > I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some > feedback about problems on that platform

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Ken Cunningham
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 6:16 AM, Ken Cunningham > wrote: > > > >> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary wrote: >> >> On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: > I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some > feedback about problems on that platfor

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Ken Cunningham
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > > On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some feedback about problems on that platform, but also because any PPC machine is super slow and MacPorts is

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: > > > I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some > > > feedback about problems on that platform, but also because any PPC > > > machine is super slow and MacPorts is often the most important part > > > that actually mak

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 16 January 2018 at 10:16, Jan Stary wrote: > > What is the proportion of the (would be) 10.5.8 packages to the overal size? > (No doubt it's a lot of space, but what portion of it is one platform?) Approximately one divided by the number of platforms. The proportion can drop if many packages fa

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
On 16/01/18 09:55, Jan Stary wrote: The reasons for not having a 10.5 Intel builder are that no users should need it (all users on 10.5 Intel should upgrade to 10.6) Why? many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always migrate their machines to the most up to date OS the

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Jan Stary
> > > The reasons for not having a 10.5 Intel builder are that > > > no users should need it (all users on 10.5 Intel should upgrade to 10.6) > > > > Why? > > many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always migrate > their machines to the most up to date OS they can run, Some

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
On 16/01/18 09:14, Jan Stary wrote: On Jan 14 21:47:43, mo...@macports.org wrote: On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote: A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, you should update at least to 10.6... the 10.5 buildbot exi

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
On 16/01/18 09:16, Jan Stary wrote: On Jan 15 22:33:56, ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Jan 14, 2018, at 14:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote: A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, yo

Re: 10.13.2 supplemental update & root account

2018-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, On 16/01/18 09:13, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: Ryan Schmidt wrote: Using the root account is not recommended; you should use an admin account instead. If you must use the root account, and you have no admin account with which to enable it the normal way, you can apparently enable it in si

Re: 10.13.2 supplemental update & root account

2018-01-16 Thread Jan Stary
> The issue is not whether or not I'm using the root account or not ; > neither how and why I'm using it on my boxes - that's purely my own > business ; and -frankly- please stay out of that ! It's Apple messing with your root account, not Ryan, who, on the contrary, makes your system more usable.

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 15 22:33:56, ryandes...@macports.org wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2018, at 14:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote: > >> > >> A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel > >> > >> The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, you should > >>

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

2018-01-16 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 14 21:47:43, mo...@macports.org wrote: > On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel > > > > The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, you should > > update at least to 10.6... the 10.5 buildbot exists because that is th

Re: 10.13.2 supplemental update & root account

2018-01-16 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > Using the root account is not recommended; you should use an admin account > instead. > > If you must use the root account, and you have no admin account with which to > enable it the normal way, you can apparently enable it in single user mode: > > http://sachinparmarb