Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:53:04 +0900 (JST) From: MIHIRA Sanpei Yoshiro <sanpei@sanpei.org> To: swills@FreeBSD.org Cc: ruby@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Update plan for Mechanize-2.1 Message-ID: <20120201.065304.625859878544518227.sanpei@sanpei.org> In-Reply-To: <4F1B5971.5040109@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120122.072940.1845728741722818260.sanpei@sanpei.org> <4F1B5971.5040109@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi, Steve Thank you for your response. I'm FreeBSD committer(sanpei@FreeBSD.org) Now I'm trying update Mechanize ports to 2.1 and create new ports (domain_name and ntlm-http). If someone already done, please let me to know. Best Regards, Yoshiro MIHIRA >On 01/21/12 17:29, MIHIRA Sanpei Yoshiro wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm FreeBSD and ruby user. >> >> Currently I use mechanize for web client programming. >> >> Latest version of mechanize is 2.1. However current ports tree is unfortunately 1.0(ports/www/rubygem-mechanize/). >> >> Would you tell me the update plan? >> > >I don't know of anyone who has an update plan for this. If you would >like to submit a patch, it would help things along. If you take a look >at the porters handbook: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/ > >it has detailed instructions on how to do this. If you would like help, >I'd be happy to assist. > >Looking at the update briefly, it seems that some of it's dependencies >already have ports, but some do not. We would need a port of the >domain_name and ntlm-http gems. > >The module would also need to be updated to work with the 1.2 version of >the net-http-digest_auth gem, currently it only supports 1.1.x. Someone >would need to contact the upstream author(s) about this. --- MIHIRA, Sanpei Yoshiro Tokyo, Japan.
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