MacPorts

GNOME 2.18.2 is out

GNOME has released version 2.18.2 of their platform and desktop software suites. MacPorts has some catching up to do. There is a diagram of the current statu...

Plugging away at GNOME

Due to rough times this week, I still have not gotten GNOME built on my computer.

Pallet

Pallet is the beginnings of an attempt to write a usable and free GUI for the MacPorts software porting system.

Broken GNOME

My MacPorts-based installation of GNOME is broken. It seems that when I installed KDE Office to verify that some GNOME packages that KDE Office uses were not...

MacPorts / GNOME Report

I managed to, within 3 days of GNOME releasing version 2.18.0, get the entire current GNOME Platform into MacPorts. It actually took only a few hours work, a...

MacPorts / GNOME Weekly Report

I know, I know. This seems more like a quarterly report than a weekly report, but it is more that I took a sabbatical from port maintenance than that I have ...

MacPorts / GNOME Weekly Report

GNOME has sound! (Actually ever since we ported gstreamer version 0.10.0+, GNOME has had working sound if the esd output was selected in the GNOME Preference...

MacPorts / GNOME Weekly Report

This is the first of what I hope will be a weekly report on the goings on with the GNOME packages carried by the MacPorts project.

Mid-August

Things have been quiet of late. Its been more of the same-ol’, same-ol’.

Using portfile-update

About 6 months ago, I threw together a script to help me automate the process of updating a Portfile for a package from GNOME ftp servers. I called the scrip...

portfile-update 0.1

This evening I published a new tool for DarwinPorts called portfile-update. Run from a directory containing a DarwinPorts Portfile, it will upgrade the port ...

Changes in GNOME bindings…

My auto-status tool for the GNOME packages in DarwinPorts broke because GNOME’s MD5 hashsum list for the official packages for 2.14.2 are different than for ...

GNOME on DarwinPorts (2)

Since my primary machine went down 2 weeks ago, I have had a chance (and a need) to reinstall GNOME from scratch with DarwinPorts. This has resulted in many ...

A Conversation with Marc

On 29 Apr 2006, at 18:35, Marc wrote: Hey thanks a lot! I’m using fink; any advantages to using darwinports? I’m so glad I recently discovered about...

glib/gtk

Successfully upgraded glib and gtk to the GNOME 2.14.0 speced versions, albeit running GNOME 2.12.3 speced everything else.

DarwinPorts 1.2

Darwinports released a new version of the port engine this week and it broke my scripts that maintain the GNOME on Darwinports page. For some damned reason, ...

GNOME on Mac OS X

All I want is my GNOME tools to work on Mac OS X. It would be really cool if they ran as Aqua applications, but I’ll settle for using them in Apple’s X11 env...

GNOME on DarwinPorts

I was nominated to be a commiter on the DarwinPorts project due to the number of ports that I have submitted upgrades for. Almost every port I have submitted...

GNOME on DarwinPorts Status

A few of the core GNOME packages carried by DarwinPorts have been updated over the week. Most of my patches have been accepted and applied, but some have yet...

GNOME Platform for Darwin/Mac OS X

I have posted the current status of the various packages provided by DarwinPorts for Mac OS X and Darwin that make up the GNOME platform, bindings, and deskt...