mistake in my solfege portfile, seeking guidance
Allen McBride
allencmcbride at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 23:25:42 PDT 2009
As I've written at
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18870
I made a mistake in my portfile for solfege. For a silly reason, I
didn't realize that Mac users, in order to use Solfege, needed to
install an external MIDI player and then point Solfege at that player
in its preferences, once it's running. Therefore I think I should add
qtplay as a runtime dependency for solfege. I'm working with the
author to make it so that Solfege will default to the correct settings
if it's being built on a Mac. In the meantime, I'm thinking I should
submit a new portfile with the following changes:
1) Include qtplay as a runtime dependency
2) Include the following (I copied the ui_msg thing from python26):
post-activate {
ui_msg "\nAfter starting Solfege for the first time, select\
File->Preferences. \nUnder the External Programs tab, under the
subheading\
Audio File \nPlayers, enter \"qtplay\" in the field labeled \"MIDI:\".\
Under the \nSound Setup tab, select \"Use external MIDI player\".\n"
}
3) Include "revision 1"
Does this seem like the right course of action? I could also just
wait until I get everything ironed out so that users don't have to
mess with preferences at all. But I hate to think of users being
frustrated with the error message that Rainer told me about on the
ticket. I guess I don't have any idea how many MacPorts fans are
likely to install a yet-unadvertised, minor port like solfege in the
next week or two. Could be zero or fifty, for all I know.
Thanks,
Allen
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