On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:31, Johannes Kastl wrote: > On 09.01.14 16:23 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> What benefit would you get from having updated versions of these >> ports, that you would not get by downloading the pre-compiled >> binaries from the developer’s web site? The previous maintainer of >> these ports gave up because it was an enormous amount of work to >> build these complicated software packages. There would have to be a >> good reason for someone to continue to invest that amount of time. > > The only benefit I could see would be, that you get the updates as > soon as you upgrade your ports, even before you open Firefox on that > machine. > > But its questionable if this is worth the effort, I agree.
The ports are for X11 versions of the software whereas the binaries you can download from Mozilla are Cocoa versions. So unless you have specific desire for X11 versions, I think you’re better off using Mozilla’s binaries. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
