update goffice to 0.8

[jcupitt@…]

goffice is a library for (among other things) displaying charts in gtk applications. See:

 http://freshmeat.net/projects/goffice

Macports currently has two ports for goffice: goffice and goffice03. The first one is for goffice0.6 (the current stable version), and goffice03 is for an older version.

goffice 0.8 has been in development for a good while and is already being used by a number of projects as it fixes quite a few serious shortcomings with the current stable version. However is is still not finished and stable.

I propose making a port called "goffice08" which packages the current development version (0.7.15) as goffice-0.8. This will let us write Portfiles for a number of programs, such as nip2 7.20.

Ubuntu Karmic Koalla package goffice 0.7.8 as goffice0.8, for reference, so this is not totally crazy.

I've written a Portfile which seems to work for me.

[jcupitt@…]

Portfile for goffice 0.7.15, named as goffice08

[jmr@…]

Normally a development version would be called goffice-devel. It doesn't make much sense to call it 08 when it is in fact 07.

[jcupitt@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

It doesn't make much sense to call it 08 when it is in fact 07.

It installs a package named goffice-0.8 and other packages refer to it as that. It's just that it's not the final, stable version of 0.8.

[ryandesign@…]

Is there any reason why the goffice port that's currently at 0.6 wouldn't be updated to 0.8 once that's final? If not, then we should follow the usual MacPorts convention, and have goffice be the latest stable version and goffice-devel be the latest development version, as Joshua said.

[jcupitt@…]

The advantage would be that when goffice-0.7.x finally becomes the new stable 0.8.x, the nip2 portfile won't need updating.

I noticed a port called goffice03 which is I guess for packages that haven't been updated to goffice06, so I thought by extension that goffice08 might be a good name. Debian and friends do it rather like this.

Of course if Macports has an established -devel convention than that would be the better thing to do I guess, though it does mean that the nip2 Portfile is likely to break when 0.8 goes stable.

[mike@…]

I'd like to see a goffice08-type port. Applications such as gnumeric have moved to the new goffice API. A goffice08 port would allow us to more easily build development application trees, resulting in a quicker transition when a new stable version is released. Also, this would allow MacPorts users to be more closely involved in the upstream development process because we could report bugs earlier in the development cycle.

[mike@…]

Goffice 0.8.0 was released on February 13th. The request for goffice08 is now somewhat irrelevant, assuming we package goffice 0.8.0 and gnumeric 1.10.0.

[mike@…]

Portfile that builds goffice-0.8.0

[ryandesign@…]

Replying to mike@…:

assuming we package [...] gnumeric 1.10.0.

I filed this request in #24475.

[jmr@…]

Please use a unified diff in future when submitting an update to an existing file. Will gnumeric and gnucash need to be updated to newer versions at the same time as goffice, or will the current versions be OK with just a rev bump?

[snc@…]

Updated goffice in r70894. Added missing dependencies.

[bzbarsky@…]

This change made it impossible to install gnumeric via macports, since gnumeric 1.8.4 (which is what macports currently includes) depends on goffice 0.6. I guess this is #24475? It's sort of odd that this was done without updating gnumeric at the same time...

[devans@…]

goffice updated to version 0.8.9 in r70944
gnumeric updated to version 1.10.9 in r70946

[jmr@…]

@snc: I asked in comment:8 about the issue that bzbarsky just brought up. Please test before you commit next time.

[bzbarsky@…]

And yes, gnucash is now broken too. The exact error they list on  http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building in the "Ubuntu 9.10" section (building gnucash 2.2.9 against goffice 0.8 fails).

[bzbarsky@…]

comment:14 was with goffice-0.8.0. Still waiting on the gnumeric build (thanks for fixing that!) before I can try gnucash against 0.8.9.

[bzbarsky@…]

Yeah, still fails to build gnucash, From the log:

:info:build gnc-html-graph-gog.c:49:37: error: goffice/graph/gog-style.h: No such file or directory

followed by various ensuing failures with stuff being undeclared, incomplete types, etc.

[bzbarsky@…]

OK, looks like gnucash got fixed in #26256.