I live in Berlin, Germany. I like to program, and I like working software. Currently interested in Erlang, Ruby, C, Common Lisp, Unix IO APIs, and B-Trees.

Personal MacPorts wishlist

1. There should be an automatic build server (ideally with results in a web interface, filterable, searchable and with automatic notification)
2. Dependencies don't use variants; fix
3. Outlaw any overwriting of other port's files, because it makes install fail (without -f, which is not an option ;)
4. There should be post-activate and pre-deactivate hooks to run port-specific scripts (e.g. to install launchd plists)
5. new option to automatically upgrade dependencies before building a port
6. port list, info are slow; make fast (using b-trees) [r47110, using temp hash cache]
7. There should be user messages from within Portfiles which are a bit more persistent, like emails; maybe a highlevel user-message log file is enough
8. There should be a tool which finds stale references from executables and libraries to dynamically linked libraries (think gentoo revdep-rebuild)
9. make guide use a reasonable (wiki-like) markup, not docbook-xml. [rejected on the dev list]
10. Feature: Dependencies can use (minimum) versions
11. 'uninstall --follow-dependents' loses its value by the fact that port constantly asks which specific version to uninstall if there is more than one installed (which is usually the case for every one, since it is the default)

My ports are:

libsvm                          
mochiweb                        
rb-mysql                        
rb-rmagick                      
ruby19                          
tsung                           
tuntaposx

Open issues of these ports:

#37783

graphviz +universal +ruby fails if ruby19 is -universal

#53161

tuntaposx: kernel extensions have to be signed

#64275

tuntaposx: fails to activate

#64646

tuntaposx @20150118: fix for Leopard? Previous version builds for ppc but fails for ppc+ppc64

and

#43431

Ports with mysql4 or mysql5 variants and/or dependencies should switch to using mysql57+ or mariadb.

#53161

tuntaposx: kernel extensions have to be signed

#60206

Migrate kaffe dependents to Java portgroup

#64275

tuntaposx: fails to activate

#64646

tuntaposx @20150118: fix for Leopard? Previous version builds for ppc but fails for ppc+ppc64

#69107

Ruby: perhaps get rid of separate rb19 ports and move those to subports?

Reported Tickets

#15623

guide (trunk) Documentation missing for several Tcl extenstions (pextlib1.0)

Assigned Tickets

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On CC

#16336

Allow multiple ports to satisfy a single dependency

#19128

mpab timeout on port builds