xfce, xfce4-session, xfwm4, xfdesktop: Update to 4.16.x

which ports exactly? This one is 4.16:

[4cbfb3daad8f54f5058d3e4796ba375dd5443a62/macports-ports]

most of them look to be 4.16.x actually…

​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/tree/master/xfce

but not all, I see…and some of the core ones are still 4.12. OK, a few to go.

I began the process of updating the xfce ports to 4.16 but since there are so many ports and it had already taken me several hours I only updated some. Later, I updated a few more. There are more remaining to update. If there are specific ones that are important to you now, let us know here and I'll prioritize those.

Has duplicate of #64888.

We should perhaps update everything to the current versions now. Base is at 4.18.0. Some apps will have random versions. Macports livecheck is useless here, but they can be checked from links in portfiles.

Yes, somebody should update the ports, and fix the livecheck while they're at it. I'm not working on it anymore. There are many xfce ports so it is a large time commitment to do the full set of updates.

Replying to ryandesign:

Yes, somebody should update the ports, and fix the livecheck while they're at it. I'm not working on it anymore. There are many xfce ports so it is a large time commitment to do the full set of updates.

I will have to see which other ports are there besides those in xfce folder itself. It but a few, I could probably do it, since I want to fix them for older systems anyway.

Could you just help with livecheck? I assume the code will be identical, so if you give me a correct template, I will use it across xfce ports.

Replying to barracuda156:

I will have to see which other ports are there besides those in xfce folder itself. It but a few, I could probably do it, since I want to fix them for older systems anyway.

port echo homepage:'xfce\.org' is one way to identify them.

You may want to look back at some of the commits where I updated some of the ports to 4.16.x to get an idea of the kinds of changes that were needed.

Could you just help with livecheck? I assume the code will be identical, so if you give me a correct template, I will use it across xfce ports.

The developers sure aren't making it easy for us. They put each distfile into a directory named after the branch. master_sites is of course set to that directory. Livecheck by default looks in master_sites. This means we don't notice when a new major branch is released. If the xfce ports had a maintainer, that might be sufficient, assuming the maintainer has another way of being notified of new major releases, such as by being subscribed to the ​xfce-announce mailing list.

Each xfce project has its own page which lists the latest release number, but I checked the ​xfconf page as an example and it says the latest release is 4.19.0. Like all xfce version numbers where the second number is odd, that's a development version; we want the latest stable version number, so checking the project's page won't work.

I see there is a gitlab repository, so using its list of tags is probably going to be the way to do it. I'll commit this change to xfconf shortly so you can see how that's done.

Be aware that the gitlab portgroup only supports downloading .tar.bz2 files. If any xfce port needs to download a non-.tar.bz2 file, then the gitlab portgroup probably cannot be used. That's #64960.

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