On Aug 6, 2012, at 09:12, Andrea D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Leo Singer <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am a co-maintainer of a port (nds2-client) that has an optional MATLAB >> interface. The MATLAB interface takes the form of so-called MEX files, which >> are shared modules that are compiled and linked against MATLAB. I am >> consdering adding a variant to enable the MATLAB interface feature for this >> port. Would an optional variant that requires the user to have a commercial >> application be in any way against the policies of MacPorts? > > I think this subject deserves an answer but I'm no way able to provide > it. Furthermore I'm curious about it. > > PortMgr, any comment? I think we already have precedent for that in MacPorts. For example, the oracle-instantclient port isn't useful without an Oracle server, which is commercial software. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
