new port: libcerf

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

I'm submitting a new Portfile for review.

Trunk version of gnuplot now uses some functions from this library (when the library is available).

Gnuplot docs list ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcerf/ as the homepage, but the site contains nothing but the link to ​http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/doku/sc/libcerf. I'm not sure which site should be listed in the Portfile. The second problem is that based on the current layout of ​http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/src/libcerf/, it might happen that the author plans to move the file under old/ once a new version gets released. That could be a tiny bit of a problem for MacPorts for a while.

Testing and comments welcome. So are any volunteers for maintainers.

(In case of no feedback, I'll add this library when new gnuplot will be released.)

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Portfile for libcerf 1.1

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Addendum:

It probably makes sense to remove

  $PREFIX/bin/run_w_of_z
  $PREFIX/bin/runvoigt
  $PREFIX/bin/test_libcerf_1

It would also be great to have pkg-config support, but that only makes sense if upstream implements it, else developers of gnuplot won't be willing to add pkg-config support to gnuplot => no gain.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to mojca@…:

Gnuplot docs list ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcerf/ as the homepage, but the site contains nothing but the link to ​http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/doku/sc/libcerf. I'm not sure which site should be listed in the Portfile.

Agreed, the sourceforge page has nothing useful; listing the other site, like you did, seems best.

The second problem is that based on the current layout of ​http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/src/libcerf/, it might happen that the author plans to move the file under old/ once a new version gets released. That could be a tiny bit of a problem for MacPorts for a while.

You can list both the current location and the hypothetical future "old" location in the master_sites. Many ports already do this, although it was more of a problem before we had our own distfiles mirror network. Now that our mirrors will copy the distfile at the time that you commit it to the repository, it's not really a problem if upstream later moves or removes it.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Portfile for libcerf 1.2

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Thank you. I added the "old" to the list of master_sites. If nothing else, the author already released a new version which removes the testing binaries. It doesn't hurt to have the path with old binaries there.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Portfile for libcerf 1.3

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Committed in r108261, but fails on Slow Leopard buildbot. So I'll keep this ticket alive.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Since you committed the port, this ticket should be closed. Any issues can be opened as a new defect ticket.