Mac::Growl?

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Sat May 1 12:06:40 PDT 2010


On May 1, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Steve Morris wrote:

>> Also, if there are tests that are not being done at p5-mac-growl  
>> install
>> time let's fix that too.
>
> The instructions with the growl site download told me to run "make
> test" after the build.

man portfile

I updated the Portfile in trac.

http://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/24748/Portfile

Added maintainer and "test.run yes".

> I think this is standard for perl packages from
> CPAN. When I did so four growl notices appeared. Unfortunately the doc
> also pointed out that the test always passes because there was no way
> for the test itself to know if it worked. It depends on the user
> seeing the notice. That definitely did not happen with the macports
> install. And there were no test lines during the install.
>
> bash-3.2$ sudo port install p5-mac-growl
> --->  Computing dependencies for p5-mac-growl
> --->  Fetching p5-mac-growl
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for p5-mac-growl
> --->  Extracting p5-mac-growl
> --->  Configuring p5-mac-growl
> --->  Building p5-mac-growl
> --->  Staging p5-mac-growl into destroot
> --->  Installing p5-mac-growl @0.67_0
> --->  Activating p5-mac-growl @0.67_0
> --->  Cleaning p5-mac-growl
> bash-3.2$
>
>> If you don't mind me asking, what are you wanting Mac::Growl for?
>
> Currently I'm just exploring it for personal use. I don't like the
> notifications I get from google sync for my gmail account so I want to
> write a better filter.

Ok, so not related to kdenlive:)

// Brad


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