Port sniprun might be lacking something

[Gandoon (Erik Hedlund)]

I came across sniprun a little while back and was keen on trying it out and was happy to see that MacPorts seemingly had a port of it.

However, it seems to be either incomplete, lacking a dependency, or at least a full description of where to find the missing links.

Following the general instructions and adding a require to my init.lua according to the notes etc. I still seem to be lacking a few things that seems to be reasonable to expect the port to provide:

E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: /Users/myuser/.config/nvim/init.lua:4: module 'sniprun' not found:
        no field package.preload['sniprun']
cache_loader: module sniprun not found
cache_loader_lib: module sniprun not found
        no file './sniprun.lua'
        no file '/opt/local/share/luajit-2.1/sniprun.lua'
        no file '/opt/local/share/lua/5.1/sniprun.lua'
        no file '/opt/local/share/lua/5.1/sniprun/init.lua'
        no file './sniprun.so'
        no file '/opt/local/lib/lua/5.1/sniprun.so'
        no file '/opt/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

Neither of the *.sos are installed by MacPorts, and the *.lua files are also absent. It could be that the latter are intended to be the local configuration, but if the end user is expected to provide them personally, /opt/local/share seems like an odd location to put them in though.

The only thing provided by the port is the executable:

$ port -v contents sniprun
Port sniprun contains:
  /opt/local/sbin/sniprun

And that is confirmed by building the port with -k, none of those files ends up being produced anywhere in the work directory.

So, my conclusion is that either this port is at least partially broken, I missed an unforced dependency, or I am just incredibly stupid. (Actually, it may be a little bit of all three, but at this time I am unsure.)

If anyone knows, please let me know if I missed something here.