seems to be a tonne of opportunity to smoke fink

[Gagan Sidhu]

(sorry for the dupe email ryan)

“how do i do that?” (submit a pull request) lol i remember our beloved ppc crank barracuda told me to do the same thing for folly and i didn’t know how.

i’m just kidding on expecting you to answer that here though, as i know/hope/suspect bing will tell me how to do it.
	- and i’m pretty sure you guys will have some documentation, probably from like 20 years ago (and is still probably current haha) that explains how to do it.

but yes i think my proposed changes for nodejs14-nodejs18 should probably be upstreamed sooner rather than later.

i want to test on nodejs19+ but i’m super-paranoid after moving from a MacPro 5,1 (velociraptor raid) to an iMacPro, and don’t want to incur another \gtrsim 150gigs (maybe more, probably more) from building.

even though smartctl tells me i have 99% life, i’ve used a few terabytes in the couple of weeks from going hard on firefox and also rebuilding node a few times (filled my VM disk as the build files showed haha)

so i am planning to get a sata ssd to ease that, and i wanted to test my changes by building them once-over to be sure before the upstream.

Thanks,
Gagan

> On Sep 29, 2024, at 2:28 PM, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 29, 2024, at 07:13, Gagan Sidhu wrote:
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>> you are correct that users are able to build “any software you want”, but only with some involved  _EDITS_ of the _CURRENT_ portfiles of the aforementioned ports.
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>> are we expecting the macports user to know how to do all of this?
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>> with some maintenance of existing portfiles for popular software, i think macports popularity could increase significantly
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> Certainly it is not expected for *every user* to need to know how to build a given piece of software. The whole point of MacPorts is that only *one user* needs to figure it out. They encode that knowledge into a portfile so that then every other user can build that software by just asking MacPorts to do it. So if you know of any problem in any port and know how to fix it, please submit a pull request so that everyone can benefit. That's how this whole thing works. Nothing gets done unless someone contributes it. 
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