[MacPorts] #26040: New port: xymon

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#26040: New port: xymon
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 Reporter:  fclaire@…        |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  submission       |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal           |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports            |     Version:  1.9.1                                
 Keywords:                   |        Port:  xymon                                
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

  * port:  => xymon


Comment:

 I have not spent a lot of time evaluating this, but my initial impressions
 are

  * this looks exceptionally complicated
  * the server and client variants would seem to be totally conflicting
 with one another, and should therefore so indicate, however wouldn't it
 make a lot more sense to have two separate ports, one for the client and
 one for the server? call the client port "xymon" and call the server
 "xymon-server"; this matches how we handle postgresql and mysql now
  * master_sites can just be "sourceforge"
  * the first revision of any port version should usually be 0, not 1; you
 can just omit the revision line entirely to accomplish that
  * why use a beta version, and not a stable version?
  * you must not "file mkdir" in the main part of a port; that would get
 executed even on such operations as "port info"; you probably want the
 destroot.keepdirs command in this case
  * it's usually simplest to use "ln -s" instead of "file link -symbolic"
 or "system 'ln -s'" to create symlinks; there are some cases where this
 won't work; if this is one of those cases, please add a comment in the
 portfile explaining it so others don't wonder
  * we prefer to use notes now, instead of manually calling ui_msg in post-
 activate
  * you shouldn't hardcode /opt/local, not even in messages printed to the
 user; use ${prefix}

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