On Jul 9, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Adam Dershowitz <de...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > No. They do use existing standard ports. So openmodelica does require certain > macporys dependencies, not its own separate copies. I don't know about Qt, > and don't have access to check at the moment. But, my guess is that they are > using the standard macport Qt, not a redundant one. I know that for a bunch > of other things they just use the macport port so there is no redundancy. > They have even worked on some ports to get them upgraded to get things to > work together. The only reason that I could see any redundant versions is if > they require some specific version that macports doesn't have. And doing that > would be tricky to avoid any conflicting versions. > I think that you have a bit of a misunderstanding. You could, for example > create your own port file of something, and just keep that file locally (see > the macport instructions). That port could then have other dependencies that > are included with macports. All they have done is put their port file, > instead, on their server, and you can then use it by adding it to your > sources file. No redundant files involved, and no extra disk space. A port > file is just a text file that explains where to find files, and how to build. > Part of that "how" is what other ports are required to be installed. If > someone were able to copy the current port file from their server to macports > the build would be identical in size and dependents. > My guess is that the reason they haven't done that is because the release > version is a bit behind, and the develop version is changing every day. But I > don't know for sure.
Adam, Jerry is correct. The binary distribution provided on the openmodelica web site, though created with MacPorts, installs the MacPorts-provided dependencies into a separate prefix /opt/openmodelica, not the normal MacPorts prefix /opt/local. This is exactly as we at MacPorts would recommend for a third party wanting to distribute a standalone installer so that it will not conflict with an existing MacPorts installation. Jerry is correct that, would the openmodelica developers instead submit their portfile to be included in the standard MacPorts ports tree, then openmodelica could be installed by using existing MacPorts dependencies (in /opt/local or whatever the user's prefix is), and would not need separate copies thereof in /opt/openmodelica. The user can already accomplish this however by setting up a second sources entry in their sources.conf pointing to the openmodelica rsync server, which is in fact what Jerry had done and is what prompted him to begin this thread, when the openmodelica rsync server was temporarily offline. You can read more about all of this at: https://www.openmodelica.org/index.php/download/download-mac _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
