On Mar 31, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
Sure, but it doesn't integrate with MacPorts and installs outside the registry. So it will rather screw up your existing installation.
Let's talk on more practical terms. On trunk several pieces of Gnome 2.22 have been already committed sparsely without coordination: almost a nightmare. Let's suppose that someone (me!) is busy building Gnome again from scratch and he is offering his archives/packages to the others in order to save humanly the battery life of their portable: why shouldn't you trust him (me!)? Currently MacPorts doesn't offer OpenOffice, nor Mono, nor KDE 4, nor X.org, nor Java 6: how can we afford to accomplish these valuable porting efforts if every committer/submitter is building again and again his personal tree? FreeBSD has them thanks to dedicated teams and a building cluster: that's the way to go. It's really sad that we are hosted in the same "community" infrastructure of WebKit and of his buildbots but you have to spend hours to recompile it yourself in order to test the latest new Gnome application which makes use of WebKit's latest daily features. Ever heard of MacRuby? Yes, it is here on Mac OS Forge. -Guido_______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
