[MacPorts] #30580: biblatex-biber dependencies
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Thu Aug 4 01:44:42 PDT 2011
#30580: biblatex-biber dependencies
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Reporter: Philip@… | Owner: dports@…
Type: update | Status: new
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version: 2.0.1
Keywords: biber | Port: biblatex-biber
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Comment(by dports@…):
Greetings (and thanks for your work on biblatex/biber; I'm looking forward
to giving it a try on a paper I'm working on!)
It's by design that we're using the perl modules instead of the binary.
Actually, it's also the reason I created a separate port for it instead of
using the binaries in TL2011.
This is for all the same reasons that we prefer to install libraries
separately rather than statically linking binaries: it keeps people from
having to install multiple copies of the perl interpreter and its modules
if they need them for separate ports, and avoids the need to keep multiple
versions up to date wrt bug and security fixes and the like. Also, for
perl in particular, it's likely that most users will have the interpreter
and some of the common libraries around anyway, as they're dependencies
for many ports.
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