Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On May 30, 2007, at 9:40 AM, paul beard wrote:
I'm getting a sense that people who use double-clickable installers
are somehow not "our sort of people." Goodness knows we can always use
more snobbery ;-)
I wouldn't argue that at all. I would instead argue that MacPorts is
simply not READY to serve people who use double-clickable installers.
That has always been a design goal of MacPorts, but it's not there
yet. It has a ways to go. It doesn't even know how many of its ports
even build at a given time yet, much less have them all packaged up and
ready to double click on. :-)
I would agree with that. I would say that once you have a binary
repository, and a very, very easy to use gui installer, then and only
then, is it going to be ready for the average user. Normal people look
at the command line like it's some sort of arcane magic. Normal people
don't want to take half an hour to compile mozilla from source rather
than taking 2 minutes to download it.
If you were installing binaries, and if you had a nice gui, to handle
not only installing the software but also to handle seamlessly keeping
it up to date, then I think it would be a GREAT tool for your average
user. Until then they are going to stick to installing via drag and
drop .app folders.
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