[MacPorts] #20353: Hydrogen portfile update request

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Sun Aug 2 15:58:19 PDT 2009


#20353: Hydrogen portfile update request
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  Reporter:  michieldelange@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
      Type:  update                    |      Status:  closed                               
  Priority:  Normal                    |   Milestone:                                       
 Component:  ports                     |     Version:  1.8.0                                
Resolution:  fixed                     |    Keywords:                                       
      Port:  hydrogen                  |  
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed


Comment:

 I would rather not update the hydrogen port to the latest svn revision,
 because ports should use released tarballs when available. Ideally ports
 would be for stable versions of the software, but the hydrogen project
 seems to take its sweet time between stable releases, and the port has
 been checking out from Subversion already. So I think the port should
 track the 0.9.4 release candidates, be updated to 0.9.4 final when that
 becomes available, and then stick with stable releases from there.

 I updated the hydrogen port to 0.9.4-rc1-1 in r54834. It looks pretty good
 on Leopard. It looks awful on Tiger.


 Replying to [ticket:20353 michieldelange@…]:
 > See discussion at: [http://www.hydrogen-
 music.org/forum/index.php?p=show&action=show_thread&thread=1093&fid=7&page=last]

 Somehow I neglected to read the above until after I had finished my
 update. I knew from this ticket's description that the project has
 switched from the qmake build system to scons, but in that discussion I
 read that there is still a branch that uses qmake (the win_ports branch)
 and that they recommended we use this instead. I did not understand why,
 nor why they would want to duplicate effort by maintaining two build
 systems. The update I committed uses scons (in part because I didn't know
 at the time that there was an alternative).

 You mentioned in the above thread that you were unhappy that this ticket
 was not acted on sooner. We are not magicians :) -- we cannot magically
 make software work on Mac OS X. I had to spend time familiarizing myself
 with how scons works and where qt4's files are and research several
 problems and wrong assumptions in hydrogen's use of them to figure out how
 to coerce this software to build on Mac OS X and with the dependencies
 already in MacPorts.

 MacPorts is a volunteer project and requires contributions from people who
 care about and understand each software package in order to keep those
 ports current. The hydrogen port has no maintainer, but since you seem
 interested in it, would you like to become its maintainer? Let us know.

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