byobu: feedback about 3-year-old port request

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Levent YALÇIN wrote:
> I've installed byobu from Portfile
>
> here is the steps I followed if somebody needs;
>
> $ mkdir -p /tmp/ports/devel/byobu
> $ cd /tmp/ports/devel/byobu/
> $ curl -o Portfile
> 'https://trac.macports.org/raw-attachment/ticket/30238/Portfile'
>
> Add the line below to /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf (before the
> rsync:// line)
> file:///tmp/ports
>
> $ sudo portindex
>
> and make sure you're seeing output below
> Creating port index in  /tmp/ports
>
> Total number of ports parsed: 1
> Ports successfully parsed: 1
> Ports failed: 0
> Up-to-date ports skipped: 0
>
> $ sudo port install byobu
>
> after I installed byobu i noticed that there is no python bindings of
> libnewt and then i did
>
> $ sudo port upgrade --force -n -s libnewt "configure.args=--with-python"
>
> and files were there
> $ ls -la /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  54364 Jun 16 21:10 _snack.so
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin  31008 Jun 16 21:10 snack.py
>
> but byobu was still saying No module error snack.
> I changed shebang with #!/opt/local/bin/python2.7 and didn't work
>
> I added these lines
>  24 import site
>  25 print site.getsitepackages()
> and it printed this paths
> ['/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/site-python',
> '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages']
>
> so, I added soft links
> $ sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_snack.so
> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_snack.so
> $ sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/snack.py
> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/snack.py
>
> after this I got this error
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/opt/local/bin/byobu-config", line 41, in <module>
>     SHARE = BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR+"/"+SHARE
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
>
> there is no env var for it and I added the lines below to my .bashrc
>
> export BYOBU_PREFIX=/opt/local
> export BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR=/opt/local
>
> now it works. I really hope this feedbacks help to make it better.

Thank you for you feedback.

I opened a new ticket
    http://trac.macports.org/ticket/44044
requesting support for Python in libnewt and I added a few basic comments to
    https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30238
Feel free to add comments to those tickets.

The libnewt port needs some patching first.

Mojca