You don't need macports to use nicecast.
I've used nice cast before (though it was a few years ago now) and I
didn't have macports at the time.
The only experience I had with macports was a horrible one, and I
strongly recommend you don't install it, because for me, it trashed
my whole system. I was able to recover, without reinstalling, but I
definitely wouldn't recomend the experience to others, it wasn't fun.
Anyway, macports (imo) is simply the lazy man's way of porting to
osx. There's no reason in the world why macports is even necessary,
it really doesn't take much effort to port programs to osx that have
been written for other unix type oses, I know, because I've done it
many times, and have had very little difficulties doing so.
As far as I'm concerned, macports is simply a cludge folks use when
they don't want to bother doing a proper port, most of which take a
whole 30 minutes or so if the program is well written, and doesn't
have a lot of dependencies that don't already exist on osx.
I've taken macport programs, and compiled them on osx w/o using
macports, and it didn't take very long at all to do the port, as I
already said. My opinion is to stay away from macports and all the
crap it installs on your system, You will have trouble if not right
away, then later on down the road, I don't know who came up with
macports, but I'd really like to smack them just for causing so much
trouble.
I'm not the only one who had trouble with mac ports btw, just the
only one I know who continues to speak out against it. :)
But, anyway, nicecast works just fine w/o mac ports, so don't bother
with them if you don't need to, just go download a good clean osx
version of nicecast and be done.
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