Opened 12 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#37028 closed defect (fixed)

bittorrent: Unable to install on 64 bit architecture

Reported by: mparchet@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc: mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
Port: bittorrent

Description

Hello,

I get an error when i try to compile bittorrent 5.2.0

see below

sudo port install bittorrent @5.2.0
--->  Computing dependencies for bittorrent
Error: Cannot install bittorrent for the arch(s) 'x86_64' because
Error: its dependency py25-wxpython only supports the arch(s) 'i386 ppc'.
Error: Unable to execute port: architecture mismatch

Can you fix this bug ?

Best regards

mparchet

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Keywords: bittorrent removed
Summary: Unable to install bittorrent on 64 bit architecturebittorrent: Unable to install on 64 bit architecture

This port is outdated; until it's updated to a newer version you'll be better off using the version provided at the developers web site, as was noted a year ago in #32197.

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)

Cc: mojca@… added
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
Version: 2.1.2

I wasn't sure if I was supposed to make this as fixed or wontfix. The port is using py25-wxpython-2.8 since r110279 which can be installed with the option +gtk which is supposed to work on 64-bit systems, but I didn't test it.

But see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28software%29:

Since version 6.0 the BitTorrent client has been a rebranded version of µTorrent. As a result, it is no longer open source and is currently available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

The port cannot be updated because the new version is not OpenSoure and the old version isn't maintained any more. The old version doesn't support wxWidgets 2.9 and never will (unless someone forks it and keeps maintaining it).

My suggestion would be to remove the port, but that depends on whether any users still find it useful. (Personally I'm a happy user of Transmission.)

In case that the new revision of bittorrent doesn't work and you would like to see it working, please open a new ticket and attach the full main.log.

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