On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:16 PM, David Dorward <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 Apr 2013, at 17:45, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >>> Fink, pkgsrc® and MirPorts, at the very least, deliver for >>> OSX, though not necessarily binary packages. > > >> I do not understand how that answers the question? are those options >> editions of lynx for the mac? > > > Most software written for generic UNIX-like systems is distributed by the > authors as source code. Sometimes the authors distribute compiled versions > as well. > > Most users of the software will then get it through a package management > system tailored to their operating system, and most such systems will have a > default package management system. For instance, Debian and Ubuntu use dpkg > wrapped with apt, while Centos, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora use RPM > wrapped with yum. > > The package manager is responsible for downloading and installing compiled > software or downloading, compiling and installing source code packages and > for installing dependancies. A build of Lynx might depend on ncurses and > openssl, so if you ask your package manager to install Lynx then it will > also install those packages. > > The Apple App Store doesn't distribute open source software, so Mac users > with an interest in running a wide collection of open source software tend > to use a third party package manager. > > MacPorts, MirPorts, Fink and pkgsrc are examples of third party package > managers. > > They will all install Lynx, but might compile it with different options or > have different versions of it available. >
This was always a nice pre-built version of lynx: http://habilis.net/lynxlet/ Chuck has not chimed in on this, so I am not sure if it is being maintained. --Stefan _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
