On Oct 10, 2008, at 14:31, Darren Weber wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:16:08PM -0700, rhubbell said: >> >>> 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. > > As a guess, the macports installation process could include > > a) tcl > b) a build system port (bootstrapped) to replace Xcode distributions
I suppose. But what would be the advantage? What's so awful about having to install Xcode? _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
