As a guess, the macports installation process could include a) tcl b) a build system port (bootstrapped) to replace Xcode distributions
Darren On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Bryan Blackburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:16:08PM -0700, rhubbell said: >> Hello all, >> >> Probably a ridiculous question. (never stopped me before) >> Is macports always and forever dependent upon Xcode? >> Can it be de-coupled? >> > > As long as MacPorts builds ports from source, then Xcode is an absolute > requirement (for gcc etc). If the day comes that MacPorts distributes > binary packages, then Xcode may only be needed by some ports and not > MacPorts as a whole. > > Bryan > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
