problems w/kdepim4

[Nicolas Pavillon]

Hello, 

Looking at the commit, I apparently overlooked the server part, between the fact of making the different variants and dealing with the new qt4 mysql plugins. I had a look at akonadi, and it indeed uses the server by itself, so that I'll have to correct that. 
However, for what I saw, this would not be enough to get a working port. Having tested it, the akonadi server must be running for depending applications to work properly, and there is no daemon to start it at this point. I am not sure yet, but there may also be some setting up which is required. 
I will have to look at these, but in the meantime, it seems that installing the mysql server and starting the akonadi server makes it possible to use the applications, if no other settings issues appear.

Cheers, 

Nicolas

On Aug 11, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 11, 2013, at 01:26, John Perry wrote:
>> On Sunday, August 11, 2013 01:18:31 AM Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> On Aug 10, 2013, at 22:51, John Perry wrote:
>>>> 1) mysql5-server should be listed as a dependency, as kdepim won't run
>>>> without akonadi, which won't run without a mysql server.
>>> No it should not, unless the mysql server must be running on the same
>>> computer, which I doubt.
>> 
>> If a mysql server is not already installed, then kdepim will fail, unless 
>> further configuration is done. On many users' installation, the server *would* 
>> run on the same computer. This may be true of the average user, although not 
>> perhaps the average current user of MacPorts.
> 
> Usually, running a network server is something a user must consciously choose to do. Just adding a mysql5-server dependency wouldn't ordinarily solve the problem; the user would still have to start that server. And the user must take responsibility for the server's configuration and possibly keeping backups of its data.
> 
> As a general (but unwritten) rule we don't add dependencies on network servers if that network server could also be run on a different computer, because if that's what the user wants to do, making them install additional software on this computer is a waste of their time.
> 
> I'm remembering more about this issue now. akonadi used to depend on mysql5-server. I filed a ticket about that 2.5 years ago, asking for it to be changed, for the above reasons:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27404
> 
> But then I realized that the akonadi port actually specifically references the mysqld server executable, and then I wasn't so sure whether akonadi might actually be starting the mysql server itself so I did not change it. It was changed later by the port's maintainer:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/100492
> 
> I'm Cc'ing the port's maintainer to see what he can tell us about this matter.
>