On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 7:21 AM Satryaji Aulia <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just finished building from source 348 ports without Xcode on my > 10.13 machine (only CommandLineTools). Only around 10 ports failed to > build and we know exactly why (mostly xcode 1.0 ports or dependency). > We recently discovered and/or fixed some bugs with ports like qt5, > devel, and marked ports that need xcodebuild but haven't yet like > SourceKitten. > > With the changes we made throughout the Xcode project, using MacPorts > without Xcode is now a much more pleasant experience, a major UX > improvement over the current release
I just setup macports-base from master (on a fresh macOS) and I didn't notice any issues or didn't even realize that I required XCode (which I rarely use). A great UX improvement indeed. Kudos to the student and mentors working on this. > I'll be wrapping up the project with more quality assurance and > testing. It is appreciated if you guys can try out and test the latest > master (especially for old macOS versions) BTW, I tested this on latest Mojave. > > Thank you > > Sat -- Jackson Isaac
