Re: Batch script for mass install of ports?

Ryan,

Thanks a ton! This looks very exciting to try out, and looks as if you put a
lot of time into it. I will try it later on Thursday.

Best regards,

T.

On 8/30/06, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 30, 2006, at 21:29, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> > On Aug 30, 2006, at 13:54, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
> >
> >> Also, has anyone ever written an application that can read an
> >> installed
> >> dependency chain of ports and visualize them with graphs? That
> >> would be
> >> really cool to have a visual tool.
> >
> > Yes, this part I have done. I'll post it in a moment.
>
> Ok. I guess it's good enough to share now. Here's what the output
> looks like with my installed ports:
>
> http://www.ryandesign.com/tmp/portviz.png
>
> It takes a minute or two to run, since MacPorts takes some time to
> compute each port's dependencies.
>
> Being a PHP programmer, I wrote this as a web site. It requires php5
> and Graphviz, and obviously MacPorts / DarwinPorts (that is, the port
> command). Unfortunately the Graphviz 2.8 port in MacPorts can't
> render this graph; it crashes. I assume that's just a problem with
> Graphviz 2.8 and that this will be corrected once Graphviz 2.10 is
> released and this is included in MacPorts. Unfortunately, my non-
> MacPorts Graphviz binaries cannot currently function when called from
> the web server, so that doesn't work either. What does work is to use
> the Pixelglow Mac OS X version of Graphviz:
>
> http://www.pixelglow.com/graphviz/
>
> Now you download my PHP files, put them under your document root and
> call it up in a browser.
>
> http://www.ryandesign.com/download/portviz.tar.bz2
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