Randall Wood wrote:
This is just a comment on the getmp.php page:
Maybe it should be organized such that all the stuff about "if you are
not using OS X..." is below the package installer section. Also we
could put a large "download now" item (button/banner/whatever) that
downloads the .pkg for your OS if it is available, or the source
tarball in all other cases in a manner similar to the sourceforge.net
download now buttons.
Probably a better split between "Binary Installation" and "Source
Installation", instead of hardcoding it to "Mac OS X Package (.pkg)
Installer". Another question is whether we'd want to link directly to
the source tarball for MacPorts-1.5.2 ? So that you'd either do "binary
package + port selfupdate", or you'd download the latest sources
directly if you're going to do the regular installation routine
anyway...
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/MacPorts/
MacPorts-1.5.2.tar.bz2
Mostly this is because "selfupdate" doesn't work on other platforms at
the moment, since the defaults are currently hardwired to Mac OS X.
That doesn't have to be, though, autoconf can discover almost anything.
It would be nice if we could remove "GNU bash" and "GNU make" from
requirements, too.
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12252 (configure
requires bash)
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12247 (Makefiles
require gnumake)
--anders
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