New MacPorts ports database site

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

On 19/08/2019 12:00 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Dear Chris,
> 
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 11:52, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>> Looks great. One question though, how are the port dependencies
>> determined exactly?
> 
> At the moment they are sadly only taken from a single OS, but it
> should be the latest one.

If it where the lastest OS, 10.13+, then clang-8.0 should not be listed 
as a build dep.

> 
> The source of information is here:
>      http://nue.de.rsync.macports.org/macports/release/ports/PortIndex_darwin_18_i386/PortIndex.json
> 
>> I ask as the site does not seem to happen ports
>> where the deps are OS dependent. For instance
>>
>> <https://ports.macports.org/port/root6/?tab=summary>
>>
>> lists clang-8.0 as a build dep,  but this is only correct on < macOS 10.13.
> 
> I'm not behind my mac now, but what does you portindex entry say for
> root6 (it's just a slightly more compressed format than the one linked
> above). The above linked file lists
>      ["path:bin/cmake:cmake","port:gcc9","port:pkgconfig","port:clang-8.0"]

I am not sure what you are suggesting I look at ?

port deps root6 (on macOS10.13) says

Full Name: root6 
@6.18.00_3+cocoa+davix+graphviz+gsl+opengl+python37+roofit+tmva+xml+xrootd
Build Dependencies:   cmake, gcc9, pkgconfig
Library Dependencies: libgcc, expat, gmp, giflib, jpeg, libpng, lzma, 
pcre, tiff, xz, gl2ps, lz4, vdt, tbb, git, OpenBLAS, openssl, python37, 
py37-numpy,
                       py37-jupyter, py37-gnureadline, py37-metakernel, 
xrootd, graphviz, gsl, davix, libxml2
Runtime Dependencies: root_select


This is for my local machine though, where I use a git checkout of the 
ports tree and thus portindex was generated locally.

Chris

> 
> Now, I'm not sure what OS version is running on the machine that is
> generating PortIndex (Ryan might be able to tell that). It could be
> that there is a flaw in the code that generates portindex for a
> different OS version.
> 
> 
> On an "unrelated note": I did think of potential issues with ports
> behaving in completely different ways on different OS versions, but it
> seemed to me that it was way more important to implement one simple
> and stable solution now than end up with way too complicated design
> that would never even be finished in the scope of the summer and
> potentially never deployed.
> 
> We can still think of how we could improve the application in the
> future to take different OS versions into account, I just felt that
> this was somewhat non-trivial to do right, and a disproportional
> effort compared to the benefits it would bring. We also lack
> information about dependencies for individual variants, which would be
> another super useful information to have, but it's missing from
> portindex at the moment, so it's also less trivial to add it.
> 
> Mojca
> 
>> On 19/08/2019 5:17 am, Joshua Root wrote:
>>> MacPorts' new ports database is live at <https://ports.macports.org/>.
>>> Please consider installing the "mpstats" port to enable submission of
>>> anonymous information about your system and installed ports for
>>> statistical purposes.
>>>
>>> The information collected is currently:
>>> * MacPorts version
>>> * OS name and version
>>> * CPU architecture
>>> * Selected C++ standard library
>>> * Xcode, command line tools, and GCC versions
>>> * Name, version, selected variants, and requested status of each
>>> installed port
>>> * A UUID so we can tell whether submissions are from distinct users
>>>
>>> The site also shows which OS versions each port was successfully built
>>> on, has links to open Trac tickets, and more.
>>>
>>> This new site is the result of much hard work by our GSoC student,
>>> Arjun Salyan. We hope you find it useful.
>>>
>>> Josh
>>> (on behalf of the MacPorts Port Managers)
>>>