> On May 18, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Craig Treleaven <[email protected]> wrote: > At 11:56 AM -0400 5/18/15, Brandon Allbery wrote: >> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Craig Treleaven >> <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: >> ... >> OTOH, someone posted some information several weeks ago explaining how to >> determine if that licence conflict really applies or not. (Involves >> inspecting library linkages, as I recall.) I get the impression that our >> current policy is quite conservative and that a number of packages (many?) >> may actually qualify for binary distribution with some analysis and >> verification. >> >> But someone needs to put in that time --- and time is always a problem in a >> volunteer-run project. > > Understood, I'm trying to gauge whether there is interest in taking MacPorts > in this direction. Right now, as I see it, MacPorts is pretty much geared to > coders and sophisticated users (system/network administrators, etc). There > exists a wider group of folks who just want to run a specific application or > two (say Darktable and Gimp, just for instance). If such users could just > install "Pallet-lite" and then be able to install any of a few dozen major > open-source applications, that might be pretty popular. > > In some ways, it might be the Mac App Store for open source.
we essentially have had that at different times in the past - there was an old branch that pushed the build products into rpms and did install only from rpms too (so MacPorts was just a build system and didn’t have to do any of the package management stuff). as a project, we need to decide if we want to extend MacPorts to make it less of an 80% package-manager solution (and if so, who is going to work on it?) or if it makes sense to once again look to leverage another project (just pick a package manager and have macports feed into it). -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
