-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Walt Mankowski wrote: > Yeah, I think that's fink. I don't know what MacPorts is based on.
Using tcl and it's own home-grown stuff. At one point it had layers to serialize to RPMs, dpkg, and/or apple installer .pkg's, but I don't know what's functional these days. MacPorts seems to change infrastructure more often than Fink. >> Especially when the native OS X packaging scheme (bundles and >> frameworks) has advantages over both, but neither of them use it. > > Yeah. Among the hateful things about MacPorts is that it insists on > installing its own versions of things. So, for example if you want to > install a package that uses some Perl modules (git, for instance) it > needs to install its own version of Perl first. I've had one of them > (I forget if it was fink or macports) actually install its own gcc. Some of that is historical; Apple was known to break system-level stuff in incompatible ways before they got (mostly) more careful in how they dealt with the unix-level tools. Fink will install it's own gcc for at least a few things that require bugfixes from gcc that have not made it into Apple's fork. It's not generally a requirement for most things, but if you want fortran support, or a few other things, you'll need a new gcc. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/ Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJXnX3Uu+jZtP2Zf4RAr6yAJ4urkmALZb9kyjnv3PFuE6pLSvcpACfSwch TFXWb46Ty8PWVj+k15Y2uSA= =cw6J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
