I agree with you on the macPorts side of things :) will work on getting
that setup.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> We have no preferred way to build for Mac. The MacPorts community had
> already solved about 25% of the build errors we had open, so I chose to
> commit their fixes upstream and use their build recipe for our official
> version.
>
> That said... there is much room for improvement in this regard, and the
> Apple community seems to have strong feelings between MacPorts and Homebrew
> from a development perspective (so much that each time I've asked for help
> on a public forum, an argument breaks out as to which solution is better).
>
> We do have one lmms community member which claims to have had some success
> with Homebrew, but I haven't heard from him in months.
>
> The major benefit in leveraging homebrew is that it can help iron out
> hard-coded dependencies specific to MacPorts in our scripts. It also has
> the tendency to improve the overall quality of our build instructions.
> Making our instructions infrastructurally independent usually benefits the
> project by reducing the reliance on the availability of one single
> technology (i.e. what if MacPorts goes away?)
>
> If your goal is to fix a single bug, MacPorts will have you up and running
> the quickest.
>
> If your goal is to improve our build process in general and also start
> fixing bugs, homebrew may be a better avenue.
>
> So, for sake of getting bugs fixed in a timely fashion, I strongly
> recommend MacPorts since a homebrew fan is likely to come around eventually.
>
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Jonathan Aquilina
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