helix @23.10: fatal: unable to access 'https://git.sr.ht/~sfr/tree-sitter-gemini/': The requested URL returned error: 403

[carlocaione (Carlo Caione)]

The helix build fails with:

:info:build   Failure 1/1: gemini Git command failed.
2575 :info:build   Stdout:
2576 :info:build   Stderr: fatal: unable to access 'https://git.sr.ht/~sfr/tree-sitter-gemini/': The requested URL returned error: 403

[carlocaione (Carlo Caione)]

It looks like this is needed: ​https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8932

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This is one of those demonstrations of why ports should use distfiles, not fetch using git.

[herbygillot (Herby Gillot)]

Replying to ryandesign:

This is one of those demonstrations of why ports should use distfiles, not fetch using git.

We would have run into this issue regardless.

helix's build process is running an external build step, which calls an external script that downloads a list of grammars defined by a config file custom and specific to the project, languages.toml.

Even if this port were using vendored crates, which is how we distfile Rust ports, the build process would still fail because the URL in languages.toml is no longer valid. The fix that @carlocaione is referencing corrects that very file.

This port has been building from Git because earlier versions of it had a strong reliance on Git for the build process, especially Git submodules.

It looks like that's no longer the case now, so I've switched helix over to building from the source archive, in addition to fixing this issue:

​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/21659

[herbygillot (Herby Gillot)]

In f2e01f3650b62ca440ca53bf91492f8f4f81846d/macports-ports (master):

helix: fix broken URL for 'gemini' grammar

• build from source archive, no longer fetch source using git

Closes: #68812