New port: libmaxminddb

[moderndeveloperllc (Mark Garrett)]

This library from MaxMind is the the C library successor to libgeoip.

GitHub description: "The libmaxminddb library provides a C library for reading MaxMind DB files, including the GeoIP2 databases from MaxMind. This is a custom binary format designed to facilitate fast lookups of IP addresses while allowing for great flexibility in the type of data associated with an address."

Github Repo: ​https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb It appears that they do use the tag system for semantic versioning.

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

Should libgeoip be replaced by libmaxminddb?

port info libgeoip

[moderndeveloperllc (Mark Garrett)]

Replying to pixilla@…:

Should libgeoip be replaced by libmaxminddb?

port info libgeoip

I don't think so. It's a different API with a different underlying data structure, so it would be a complete BC break to replace libgeoip. It looks like they are also continuing to patch libgeoip (last update was less than a month ago) and I haven't seen when they are going to end-of-life the underlying data structures for that version. Should probably treat this as a new product as opposed to a v2 of libgeoip. I guess "successor" was not the term I should have used. More like "new, prefered alternate".

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Working Portfile created by Eric F (iEFdev) modified slightly by me

[iEFdev]

I was going to upload an updated version, but noticed there was no changes made. (thought I did :)) Thank you so much for the fix. :+1:

For ref: ​https://github.com/iEFdev/macports-ports/blob/maxminddb_x2/devel/libmaxminddb/Portfile

[iEFdev]

In 79acbbcb2faa8ce6842c9450d70fef890808af1b/macports-ports (master):

libmaxminddb: new port

• closes: #44709