[HEADS UP] Tcl/Tk moves to the USES framework

[Pietro Cerutti]

On 2013-Sep-19, 16:07, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On September 19, 2013 2:00:04 PM +0200 Pietro Cerutti <gahr at FreeBSD.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > as of r327607 [1], Tcl/Tk ports can use the new USES framework, as
> > described in [2].
> >
> > We (tcltk@) could use your help to transition from the deprecated
> > USE_TCL and USE_TK variables to the new framework.
> >
> > For this, I have set up a wiki page at [3] to help coordinate the
> > efforts. There are currently 235 ports that need an update. If you
> > happen to be the maintainer of one of these ports, please consider
> > updating it and move the corresponding row from the "Ports to convert"
> > to the "Ports already converted" table in the Wiki, or just send in a
> > patch and ask tcltk@ do the job :)
> >
> > Thank you very much for your help!
> >
> > Pietro
> > for tcltk@
> >
> > [1]
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/029743.ht
> > ml [2]
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/029745.ht
> > ml [3] https://wiki.freebsd.org/UseTclTk
> 
> If you're going to ask us port maintainers to do this sort of thing, it 
> would be nice if you first put the file in /usr/ports/Mk/Uses.
> 
> /usr/ports]# portsnap update
> Ports tree is already up to date.
> 
> /usr/ports]# find /usr/ports/Mk/Uses -name tcl.mk
> /usr/ports]# ls /usr/ports/Mk/Uses/
> ada.mk			cmake.mk		fmake.mk		gmake.mk		motif.mk		perl5.mk		readline.mk 
> 	zenoss.mk
> bison.mk		desktop-file-utils.mk	fuse.mk			iconv.mk		ncurses.mk 
> 	pkgconfig.mk		shared-mime-info.mk
> charsetfix.mk		display.mk		gettext.mk		imake.mk		pathfix.mk		qmail.mk 
> 	shebangfix.mk

portsnap operates on snapshots of the ports tree, which are created
every X hours. I don't know the exact value of X.

I started my message sayingwith "as of r327607", so you'll have to wait
until portsnap caches up to that revision.

Thank you,

-- 
Pietro Cerutti
The FreeBSD Project
gahr at FreeBSD.org

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