[MacPorts] #21893: Can not find py-pythoncad, after installing all dependencies

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#21893: Can not find py-pythoncad, after installing all dependencies
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 Reporter:  aszy@…        |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal        |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports         |     Version:  1.8.1                                
 Keywords:                |        Port:  py-pythoncad                         
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Changes (by blb@…):

  * port:  => py-pythoncad


Old description:

> following is dump from a short run, after getting and setting all the
> dependencies.
>
> Last login: Tue Oct  6 21:01:06 on ttyp2
> Welcome to Darwin!
> Gulliver:~ aszy$ sudo port install py-pythoncad
> --->  Fetching py-pythoncad
> --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
> http://distfiles.macports.org/python
> --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
> http://www.pythoncad.org//releases/
> --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
> http://arn.se.distfiles.macports.org/python
> --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/py-pythoncad
> --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
> --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/py-pythoncad
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> yet, the port search here shows that it exists.
> do I keep trying or is something amiss?
> Second related question : I now have versions 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 installed
> for various other macport installations, and with this attempt at
> installing py-pythoncad, I was told to make 2.4 the default version -
> does this seem reasonable?
> thanks

New description:

 following is dump from a short run, after getting and setting all the
 dependencies.
 {{{
 Last login: Tue Oct  6 21:01:06 on ttyp2
 Welcome to Darwin!
 Gulliver:~ aszy$ sudo port install py-pythoncad
 --->  Fetching py-pythoncad
 --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
 http://distfiles.macports.org/python
 --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
 http://www.pythoncad.org//releases/
 --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
 http://arn.se.distfiles.macports.org/python
 --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
 http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/py-pythoncad
 --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
 http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
 --->  Attempting to fetch PythonCAD-DS1-R22.tar.bz2 from
 http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/py-pythoncad
 Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
 }}}
 yet, the port search here shows that it exists.
 do I keep trying or is something amiss?
 Second related question : I now have versions 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 installed
 for various other macport installations, and with this attempt at
 installing py-pythoncad, I was told to make 2.4 the default version - does
 this seem reasonable?
 thanks

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Comment:

 It isn't find the source tarball, which isn't surprising since that
 version is very old (py-pythoncad was updated to DS1-R22 over 4.5 years
 ago).  The reason for python24 is anything py-* prefixed wants 2.4, py25-*
 2.5, py26-* 2.6 etc.

 Probably the best thing would be for someone to make a python 2.6 version
 of this port and update it to the current release of pythoncad...however,
 since this port is unmaintained and I don't see any other tickets, you may
 be the first to have tried it in quite a while.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21893#comment:1>
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