Opened 17 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#14273 closed enhancement (fixed)

aqua/Growl does not install any of the language bindings or 'Extras'

Reported by: ecronin (Eric Cronin) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Low Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Port: Growl

Description

The Growl source tarball includes an assortment of language bindings for communicating with the service, as well as Extras including the command-line utils 'growlnotify' and 'growlctl', all of which it would be handy to have MacPorts manage/keep track of (either as variants or standalone ports).

Personally I'd prefer standalone since the Growl source code releases tend to lag the binary dmg releases for the main PrefPane greatly, so usually I need to install the PrefPane outside of MacPorts...

I may take a stab at this, assigning to boeyms tentatively since he fixed aqua/Growl most recently...

Change History (10)

comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by ecronin (Eric Cronin)

Replying to myself, r26698 is a good place to dig up some code for making the new Portfiles...

comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by boeyms@…

I'll see what can be done about them, but this post seems to suggest that they're no longer actively maintained, and I'd be loathe to put a port in if that is indeed the case.

comment:3 Changed 17 years ago by ecronin (Eric Cronin)

growlnotify still works, and is handy for popping up notifications from shell scripts... The base API is fairly stable, so even if new development/update stops for the tools they may continue working for quite a while. But again, lowest priority...

comment:4 Changed 16 years ago by ecronin (Eric Cronin)

Cc: macsforever2000@… added

With the 1.1.4 release the Growl devs split the bindings off to a new API dmg, see http://growl.info/downloads_developers.php

Not sure if adding the bindings to the main aqua/Growl port or creating a new Growl-bindings port or creating many lang-growl ports is the best route to go...

CCing in macsforever2000 since he did the 1.1.4 update to the main port.

comment:5 Changed 16 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

I think adding a growl-bindings port sounds like a good idea.

comment:6 Changed 16 years ago by (none)

Milestone: Port Enhancements

Milestone Port Enhancements deleted

comment:7 Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Port: Growl added

comment:8 Changed 13 years ago by boeyms@…

Owner: changed from boeyms@… to macports-tickets@…

Reassigning to macports-tickets@… as I have relinquished ownership of this port.

comment:9 Changed 11 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: macsforever2000@… removed

comment:10 Changed 7 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In bf25ee27d67c2f646f1865559a3a01243c75a3ef/macports-ports:

Growl: Remove outdated and abandoned ports

Ports are outdated for years, last changes from 2010. Attempts to update
the port to a recent version were not successful. Later versions are
commercial and can be purchased in the Mac App Store.

Closes: #32911
Closes: #22684
Closes: #14273

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