From: grey <artkiver@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: got for MacPorts
To: grey <artkiver@gmail.com>, gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 05:41:50 -0700

The issues raised regarding the diff make sense. I defer to your expertise
and judgement on how best to proceed.

Regardless, thanks to the got-portable developers for making it run on
macOS in the first place! I created the MacPorts Portfile more for ease of
use for myself, and hopefully others will find it useful too.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022, 02:03 Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 12:05:22AM +0000, grey wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I realize that while I apprised some individuals on IRC of making a
> > Portfile for got for MacPorts a while ago, I never subscribed to nor
> > informed those on the mailing list about its presence. So, this email is
> an
> > effort to rectify that oversight on my part.
> >
> > I started with version 0.69 and have since updated it to 0.70.
> Admittedly,
> > I don't have commit access to MacPorts, so I am reliant upon others for
> > merging my pull requests. There's no maintainer listed either, but
> barring
> > unforeseen circumstances, I will presumably continue to submit updates as
> > they are available, though of course others are welcome to volunteer as
> > maintainers if they should desire to do so!
> >
> > The MacPorts page related to it may be found here:
> >
> > https://ports.macports.org/port/got/
>
> Thanks! I very much appreciate this. There have been a few requests
> by people for a version that runs on MacOS and it is nice to see that
> it is available in macports for easy installation.
>
> > Attached is a diff with a couple of proposed changes to
> > https://gameoftrees.org/portable.html which reflect the availability of
> the
> > MacPorts version.
>
> I see two issues with this patch.
>
> I don't want to link to apple.com/macos from gameoftrees.org as it could
> be interpreted as an endorsement. We have more than enough advertisement
> for corporations on our planet already, and the non-profit ISP which hosts
> our site has a strict non-commercial policy (unclear if it extends to such
> links, but there is no reason to try and test their limits of tolerance;
> this whole ISP is run by volunteers in their spare time).
>
> Second, adding a link to macports in the separate ports section is wrong
> in context because those separate ports are not using got-portable as
> their base. Rather, they are based on the OpenBSD version of got.
>
> Regardless, I believe it would be a good idea to link to the page of your
> macports package. There are other systems as well that have packaged
> got-portable, visible here:
> https://repology.org/project/got-game-of-trees/information
> Perhaps we should add a section to portable.html which points people to
> pre-built packages, to save them the effort of compiling from source?
>