On Friday March 06 2015 16:41:49 Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>I'm prepared to except that not all ports will play nice. Some upstream
>partners may be very interested fixing their software to make this work. At
>the GSoC 2014 Mentors Convention (I attended) this idea was put forth by the
>Octave group.They struggle supporting their user base on
>[^linux]
Meaning anything not Linux I presume (after re-reading your message twice ;))?
>and what they would really like is a Mac OS X like dmg installer where they
>could drop a directory somewhere and work from there. They even talked about
>finding financing if that might help. The Octave dependency tree has deep
>roots making maintenance all the more difficult.
I'm not sure I get it. You're after a HomeBrew like way of installing packages,
in which everything lives in its own cell and whatever magic required is used
to make them co-operate?
MacPorts already has a package creation feature, isn't that what they (Octave)
are really after? I haven't checked for a while, but I seem to recall that last
time I did there was an installer for the full product for OS X.
>If all Octave deps are at current release than Octave is probably broke.
^ not ??
>
>I believe many other package authors would love a feature like this for OS X;
>keeping MacPorts at the forefront of relevance for opensource on OS X.
I don't know if this is relevant, but Digia's Qt 5.4.0 installers recently had
a glitch in which certain frameworks contained references to
/opt/local/lib/lib?.dylib (I can remember at least libz).
R
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