platforms

[Jan Stary]

On Mar 24 14:14:37, mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com wrote:
> On 24 March 2018 at 13:54, Jan Starý wrote:
> > The 'platforms' field of a Portfile is currently
> > both _required_ and _ignored_. By the Guide,
> >
> >         A list of the platforms on which the port has been tested.
> >         Required, but not interpreted in any way by the software
> >         at this time; it is purely informational for users.
> 
> I don't know anything about this, but it's possible that this could be
> interpreted already, or maybe soon in the future.

Does anybody know if it is interpretd then? Guide says no.

> > Also, it is allowed to say .e.g. "freebsd" but not e.g. "openbsd".
> 
> Personally I don't see any reason for not allowing "openbsd" (other
> than the fact that only two ports will have that keyword, so it will
> probably be useless at the end).

It _is_ completely useless now, whatever you put there.

> > I propose that the 'platforms' field be no longer required
> > if it is ignored, and if it stays, let it be a free form text,
> > as opposed to a predefined definitive list of all unixes.
> 
> We'll need it to specify which darwin versions are supported.

That would totaly change the meaning,
requiring a change of that filed for each and every port.
In fact, making a lot of current content illegal.

> We currently have this ticket high on our priority list:
>     https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15712

That's ten years old, and "there's no code written yet"
as of 13 days ago.

	Jan

> > Better yet, drop it altogether. The fact that I tested on Solaris
> > or Debian means nothing regarding the MP port. I have also tested
> > it on darwin of course, but that goes without saying.
> >
> > (What would be kinda useful is if it pointed to the actual _ports_
> > on the other systems - often there are things we can learn, as they
> > battle a lot of the same GNUisms etc. For example, the patch for opus
> > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1217 is basically
> > the OpenBSD patch for opus. So if opus 'platforms' pointed to
> > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/audio/opus/
> > it would be usefull. Unlike now.)
> 
> You could (should?) provide such pointers in comments.
> I always include sources of patches (or links to upstream tickets) if
> I get them elsewhere, either in Portfile or in the patch itself.
> 
> Mojca