Re: running macports along with homebrew

2018-02-15 Thread Julien Salort
Le 15/02/2018 à 00:42, Michael a écrit : I think we should look at ways in which MacPorts is harder to use and see if we can address those. I'd say that being able to install software without having to use sudo would be my number one. So, maybe a --user switch, similar to Python pip's ? Or,

Re: running macports along with homebrew

2018-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
Hi On 14/02/18 23:42, Michael wrote: I think we should look at ways in which MacPorts is harder to use and see if we can address those. I'd say that being able to install software without having to use sudo would be my number one. Personally, one of the reasons I choose MacPorts over the

Re: running macports along with homebrew

2018-02-15 Thread Craig Treleaven
> On Feb 14, 2018, at 2:46 PM, Ken Cunningham > wrote: > > 1. a one-line copy-paste install script that can be embedded into any webpage. I could never understand that this is considered an advantage of Homebrew. The idea of running a random script directly

Re: gdb fails to compile on Leopard - C++11 compiler

2018-02-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, I forgot to reply this! Chris Jones wrote: It appears the port already has support for building against MPs python versions, it just is not enabled by default. Titan ~/Projects/MacPorts/ports > port variants gdb gdb has the variants:    multiarch: Support all target architectures   

Re: running macports along with homebrew

2018-02-15 Thread Dr M J Carter
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 08:39:23AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Feb 14, 2018, at 17:16, db wrote: > > > I couldn't find elasticsearch in macports. > > $ port info elasticsearch > elasticsearch @6.1.2 (databases, java) [snip] Not there on my desksystem, but there on one of our test builders;

Re: running macports along with homebrew

2018-02-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 14, 2018, at 13:46, Ken Cunningham wrote: > On 2018-02-14, at 5:56 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > >> We will definitely never offer a user-facing feature for building the HEAD >> version of a port's code. > > > I completely recognize why you stick with this, I totally get it, but this

Re: running macports along with homebrew

2018-02-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 14, 2018, at 17:16, db wrote: > On 14 Feb 2018, at 14:56, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> I'm aware of "cask" being a feature of Homebrew. If that's what you're >> referring to, what does the feature do / what do you want MacPorts to do in >> regard to this? > > Manage (and here the terminology

Re: running macports along with homebrew

2018-02-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 14, 2018, at 17:42, Michael wrote: >> I think we should look at ways in which MacPorts is harder to use and see if >> we can address those. > > I'd say that being able to install software without having to use sudo would > be my number one. Step 1: edit the sudoers file so that you