A simple request (MkHexGrid) turned into ...

[Michael]

On 2022-05-14, at 8:38 AM, Marius Schamschula <lists at schamschula.com> wrote:

> Mkhexgrid has not been updated upstream since 2007.

Exactly. So I'm trying to understand how installing something so old/basic like that caused a reinstall of so many pieces in Macports.

I was expecting little more than downloading it, and maybe one or two libraries.


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> Marius
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> Marius Schamschula
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>> On May 14, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So I thought I'd install a simple little hex map generator. Mkhexgrid.
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>> Hasn't been updated in years, should be simple, right?
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>> Three versions of Python (37, 38, and 39)
>> A full reinstall of X
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>> I mean, I can sort-of understand perl, one python, and ssl -- maybe it needed to rebuild something, and needed updated ssh fetching and rebuilding the compilation environment.
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>> But everything else? And three versions of python? And not just python 2 vs python 3.
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>> I'm assuming that somewhere, some graphical library was being used that could output to X as well as to ascii/curses. I just have no idea what. 
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>> All I wanted was to generate a PNG hexmap.
>> At least it was able to fetch binaries for pretty much everything, and not compile everything.
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