buildbot: +quartz ?

[Craig Treleaven]

> On Mar 20, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 4, 2017, at 08:10, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 4 March 2017 at 03:51, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>>>> I know that we would like to find a clean solution to building ports with non-default variants.  As an interim step, however, I wonder if we might consider a buildbot that is configured to default to “+quartz”?
>>> 
>>> We don't even need a separate buildbot. Just a relatively simple
>>> improvement to the existing buildbot.
>>> 
>>> See:
>>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52742
>>> 
>>> I suggested adding a field to allow manually specifying arbitrary
>>> values for variants. But we would need some automatism as well.
>>> Perhaps something like the following:
>>> 
>>> If variant quartz exists, build the port once again, but this time
>>> with '+quartz'
>>> 
>>> but covering all corner cases (when +x11 +quartz is allowed together
>>> and when it is not …).
>> 
>> If we use the existing buildbot instances, won’t they they try to upload built binaries to packages.macports.org?
> 
> Of course. Isn't that what you're asking for? If not, why not?
> 
I didn’t think we were ready to serve pre-built binaries for non-default variants.  If we are, great.

I was working on darktable at that point.  I wanted to ensure that it would build successfully in a clean environment and ideally on other operating system versions.

>> Craig
>> (Second attempt to send; using lists.macports.org didn’t work.)
> 
> What was the problem?
> 
I still don’t know.  When I post (as ctreleaven at macports.org), it sometimes goes through to the list and sometimes doesn’t.  I don’t know if other recipients get these emails or not.  I don’t get a bounce message. 

Note that the above apparently did not make it to the list yesterday.  I’ve now re-subscribed to the mailing lists with my ctreleaven at cogeco.ca address; try to send again.

Craig