[MacPorts] #48994: py-bob @2.0.5 New release

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#48994: py-bob @2.0.5 New release
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  Reporter:  tiagofrepereira@…  |      Owner:  devans@…
      Type:  submission         |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal             |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports              |    Version:
Resolution:                     |   Keywords:
      Port:  py-bob             |
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Changes (by devans@…):

 * owner:  macports-tickets@… => devans@…
 * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 As mentioned in my ticket #46465, I've dowloaded your submitted ports and
 have begun testing. First let me thank you for porting the new bob to
 MacPorts.  It's truly a monumental amount of work!

 I've run into a few issues, however, some stylistic and some more
 substantial.

 Minor issues:

 * port names contain '.'.  MacPorts common usage is to use '-' instead to
 separate name components.
 * the port group python sets some parameters for you particularly
 categories and dependencies.  In particular, the port group sets the
 primary category to python and adds a depends_lib for the appropriate
 python version.  Normal practice is to use categories-append and
 depends_lib-append to append any additional categories and dependencies
 that my be required.  In particular, you are overriding python as the
 primary category with science.  MacPorts practice is that all python ports
 should be in the python category.  So you should just append your
 additional categories.  Note also that the name of the containing
 directory for all your ports should be the same as the primary category
 (python).
 * you use 'revision 0' throughout.  This is the default value so it is
 common practice to avoid explicitly setting the revision to 0 and only add
 the revision statement when incrementing the revision.  If the version
 number is incremented the revision is reset to 0 and any revision
 statement removed.
 * currently there is an effort underway to add support, if possible, for
 python35.  If your ports are compatible with python35 and the appropriate
 dependencies exist in MacPorts you might want to add this to your
 python.versions statement.

 None of the above are show stoppers so I went ahead and attempted to build
 py-bob.  The first dependency py-bob.blitz failed during configuration due
 to a missing dependency on boost so that needs to be added.  Note also
 that boost has different variants depending on which version of python was
 used to build its python libraries.  Default is boost +python27.  MacPorts
 doesn't allow you to specify a dependency by variant so you should
 probably check to ensure that the proper variant of boost is installed
 depending on your ports' python version.  This can be done by using the
 active_variants port group as follows:


 {{{
 PortGroup                 active_variants 1.1

 ...

 require_active_variants   port:boost python${python.version}
 }}}

 This will perform a check during dependency checking at the beginning of
 the configure phase to determine if the installed version of boost uses
 the specified variant and will fail with an appropriate message to the
 user if not.

 So that's where I am right now.  Since I'm the one that asked for these
 ports, I'm taking ownership of this ticket and will commit these ports for
 you when the various issues are resolved and they build without error.

 Thanks again for your help in contributing your significant software
 package to MacPorts.  Let me know if you have any questions.

 Dave

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