Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:53:10 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: "FreeBSD Tcl/Tk Team" <tcltk@FreeBSD.org>, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Tcl/Tk moves to the USES framework Message-ID: <4D9C193A1B1E2C48B1CED27B@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20130919211842.GS86832@gahrfit.gahr.ch> References: <20130919120004.GL86832@gahrfit.gahr.ch> <C5A47D792A0B5EF02952CE0D@localhost> <20130919211842.GS86832@gahrfit.gahr.ch>
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--On September 19, 2013 11:18:42 PM +0200 Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 2013-Sep-19, 16:07, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> --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 > > portsnap operates on snapshots of the ports tree, which are created > every X hours. I don't know the exact value of X. > > I started my message sayingwith "as of r327607", so you'll have to wait > until portsnap caches up to that revision. > > Thank you, Perhaps it would have been wiser to wait until the change was widely propagated before making the announcement? -- 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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