Good news

Randall Wood randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com
Sun Jul 6 09:34:00 PDT 2008


On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:29 AM, William Davis <frstan at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Randall, given that ringing endorsement, don't you think we ought to FIX the
> INSTALL error?

YES. Although that same page documents the install error...

> We may get a lot of new people trying MacPorts out who are not on this
> list.......
> Wm Davis
> On Jul 6, 2008, at 5:15 AM, Randall Wood wrote:
>
>> A quote from the Mozilla Developers[1]:
>>
>> "There are two package management systems that are compatible with the
>> Mozilla build system, Fink and MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts). Note
>> that package installation may be a time-consuming but automated
>> process using either tool.
>>
>> MacPorts, formerly DarwinPorts. You may download the MacPorts
>> installer corresponding to your operating system release. MacPorts
>> installs in /opt/local by default. After running the MacPorts
>> installer, the changes that it makes to the shell environment will be
>> available in any new Terminal window.
>>
>> fink (not recommended)."
>>
>> [1]: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mac_OS_X_Build_Prerequisites
>>
>> --
>> Randall Wood
>> randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com
>>
>> "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.
>> All the rest is just philosophy."
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>
>
>
> William Davis
> frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
> Mac OS X.5.4 Darwin 9.4.0
> Xquartz 2.2.3 - (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple21)
> Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz
>
> Mundus vult decepi, ego non
>
>



-- 
Randall Wood
randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com

"The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.
All the rest is just philosophy."


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