Request: port for joe @3.7

[fulopt (Tamás FÜLÖP)]

The same way I had successfully installed joe @3.7 on Macs with macOS 10.11 (via

git checkout fa6af5c780e189044c64e6bf3e2ec755984dcb71

), I have tried to install it on macOS 12.1 (arm64), but this time the installation failed. I've tried it both with the modified Portfile according to ​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/35421 ​https://trac.macports.org/changeset/97034 (which proved necessary to successfully install joe 3.7 on macOS 10.11) and with the original Portfile.

I attach both main.log files.

macOS 12.1 Monterey (arm64); Xcode 13.2.1 (13C100); MacPorts 2.7.1

(My work-related working environment relies heavily on customizations built around joe 3.7 so I would like to stay with this old version of joe as long as possible.) Thank you for your help.

[fulopt (Tamás FÜLÖP)]

main.log (when the Portfile is modified)

[fulopt (Tamás FÜLÖP)]

main.log (when the Portfile is the original one)

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Oh I see, this is an older version of the port. Sorry, we don't have the resources to patch old versions, getting the latest bug fixes is what new versions are for. Not really sure whether to resolve this as this wontfix or fixed, but I guess the latter is less misleading to other people since the issue is fixed in the current version of the port.

[fulopt (Tamás FÜLÖP)]

Thank you for the fast response. In the present case, version 3.7 --> 4.6 is not only a sequence of minor incremental upgrades but breaks backward compatibility, see, e.g., ​https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/bugs/392/. In parallel, it seems that only a minor fix is needed, actually repeating what has been done in ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/4d2c701809a3f9cfce11061571074a66ee3180c5/editors/joe/files/implicit.patch - its explanation ​https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/bugs/408/ by @ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt) is so clear that even I, a non-expert in this field, could understand it quite well. (If only I had enough expertise to carry it out myself.) Thank you very much if you could reconsider the case.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

We can consider this a request for a port that installs the 3.x version.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

When was the backward-incompatible change made? Was it in joe 4.0? I see that joe 3.8 is the last version of joe 3.x. Would it be satisfactory for us to have a joe3 port that installed 3.8, or are there enough differences between 3.7 and 3.8 that you really need 3.7?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to fulopt:

breaks backward compatibility, see, e.g., ​https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/bugs/392/

I think this specific change was introduced in ​joe 4.1 ("Key sequences in the joerc file are now UTF-8 coded Unicode") but maybe there are other changes that are significant to you too. I see there was a long 6.5 year period between the 3.7 and 3.8 releases which might include many changes.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In aa3861e8f7aef5d4f316b9aefd2f0e08053879c7/macports-ports (master):

joe37: Resurrect joe version 3.7

Closes: #64324

[fulopt (Tamás FÜLÖP)]

I confirm that

...
git checkout aa3861e8f7aef5d4f316b9aefd2f0e08053879c7
cd editors/joe
sudo port install subport=joe37

installs joe 3.7 on macOS 12.1 (arm64), which seems to run as expected. Thank you very much.