Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:07:23 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: tcltk@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Tcl/Tk moves to the USES framework Message-ID: <C5A47D792A0B5EF02952CE0D@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20130919120004.GL86832@gahrfit.gahr.ch> References: <20130919120004.GL86832@gahrfit.gahr.ch>
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--On September 19, 2013 2:00:04 PM +0200 Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > All, > > as of r327607 [1], Tcl/Tk ports can use the new USES framework, as > described in [2]. > > We (tcltk@) could use your help to transition from the deprecated > USE_TCL and USE_TK variables to the new framework. > > For this, I have set up a wiki page at [3] to help coordinate the > efforts. There are currently 235 ports that need an update. If you > happen to be the maintainer of one of these ports, please consider > updating it and move the corresponding row from the "Ports to convert" > to the "Ports already converted" table in the Wiki, or just send in a > patch and ask tcltk@ do the job :) > > Thank you very much for your help! > > Pietro > for tcltk@ > > [1] > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/029743.ht > ml [2] > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/029745.ht > ml [3] https://wiki.freebsd.org/UseTclTk If you're going to ask us port maintainers to do this sort of thing, it would be nice if you first put the file in /usr/ports/Mk/Uses. /usr/ports]# portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. /usr/ports]# find /usr/ports/Mk/Uses -name tcl.mk /usr/ports]# ls /usr/ports/Mk/Uses/ ada.mk cmake.mk fmake.mk gmake.mk motif.mk perl5.mk readline.mk zenoss.mk bison.mk desktop-file-utils.mk fuse.mk iconv.mk ncurses.mk pkgconfig.mk shared-mime-info.mk charsetfix.mk display.mk gettext.mk imake.mk pathfix.mk qmail.mk shebangfix.mk -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell
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