Sorry about that.  Downloading Xcode 3.1 is definitely the most time- 
consuming (though not the most difficult) part of the whole process.   
On the bright side, I'm pretty sure those 30 minutes of installs were  
not wasted; if they didn't give errors, my understanding is that those  
ports didn't require Xcode 3.1 and were installed correctly.  I  
discovered the new 3.1 requirement in the same way (by getting an  
error on a port install).  Once I installed Xcode 3.1, MacPorts just  
went on with installing the ports that had failed before, it didn't re- 
install the old ones, and this hasn't caused me any trouble so far.   
I'll update the Solfege wiki to emphasize MacPorts' Xcode version  
requirement.

--Allen



On Mar 30, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Peter Dann wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> I was able to install MacPorts OK on Mac PowerBook Pro running OS X
> Leopard.
>
> However, my attempt to install solfege failed, because I am running
> the version of Xcode (3.0) that shipped with OS X Leopard at the time
> I bought it. The MacPorts install for OS X Leopard requires Xcode
> version 3.1. The MacPorts installation notes imply that you can simply
> install the version of Xcode that came with your OS X Leopard
> installation disks. For some lucky users this may be true (perhaps
> Apple now ship Xcode 3.1 with these disks) It is not true for me.
>
> It took MacPorts about 30 minutes of installing various pieces of
> software before it checked that I had an incompatible version of
> Xcode. This strikes me as somewhat dumb. Shouldn't a smart installer
> be able to check the pre-requisites first, before it builds and
> installs 30 minutes worth of software?
>
> My fault, obviously. in part. I should have checked what version of
> Xcode I had installed. I just assumed I had installed the right
> version because it was the one that shipped with OS X.
>
> Looks like I'm going to need to download a 1G (sic) pre-requisite just
> to upgrade solfege!
>
> All in all, I found the fink installation process that I previously
> used to install solfege easier to use - though I guess this could
> still work if only users followed the instructions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Dann
>
>
> On 29/03/2009, at 6:16 AM, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote:
>
>> Nice work!
>> People, please post a reply to this message to the list if you have
>> tried the macport, and let us know if it works or not.
>>
>> Tom Cato
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Allen McBride <[email protected]
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi Tom Cato and everyone,
>>>
>>> With the help of MacPorts project manager Rainer Müller, Solfege
>>> 3.14.0 is now available via MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/).
>>> I'll
>>> work on writing up basic instructions for the wiki soon, explaining
>>> what MacPorts is and where to find instructions for installing and
>>> using it.  In the meantime, anyone who already uses MacPorts should
>>> be
>>> able to install Solfege in the usual MacPorts way.  If you try it  
>>> and
>>> run into trouble, let me know.  I think Rainer and I are the only
>>> people who have tested it so far.
>>>
>>> Details:
>>> Rainer wrote a patchfile for default.config, so a Mac user using
>>> MacPorts shouldn't need to mess with Solfege's preferences to get
>>> basic MIDI playback working.  So no more "No module named
>>> _solfege_c_midi" error, hopefully.  Also, in order to keep things
>>> simple for now, the port does not attempt to install CSound for the
>>> intonation exercises, nor does it attempt to install audio  
>>> converters
>>> for lesson file export.  Users can still add these on themselves.
>>>
>>> --Allen
>>>
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