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

My ports are:

libsvm                          
mochiweb                        
rb-mysql                        
rb-rmagick                      
ruby19                          
tsung                           
tuntaposx

Open issues of these ports:

#25896

rb19-sqlite3 fails destroot when ruby19 installed with nosuffix variant

#29742

ruby19's files contain -arch flags

#34867

rb19-hpricot: install fails when ruby19 +nosuffix is installed

#37783

graphviz +universal +ruby fails if ruby19 is -universal

#38405

mochiweb fails to build for erlang upgraded to R16B

and

#28582

MacPorts OpenSSL breaks a new Ruby release

#29742

ruby19's files contain -arch flags

#38405

mochiweb fails to build for erlang upgraded to R16B

Reported Tickets

#15623

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

Assigned Tickets

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On CC

#13807

support for launchd.plist items (e.g. UserName) in portfiles

#16336

Allow multiple ports to satisfy a single dependency

#19128

mpab timeout on port builds