Ticket #14796 (pike): please commit

[Rainer Müller]

Guido Soranzio wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>> We have a port for ruby.
> 
> No: MacRuby is a new project which is porting Ruby 1.9 directly on the
> Objective-C runtime.

Okay, so it is different from the default Ruby and seems to be a
separate project. Make a ruby-mac port or something like that. See,
someone with experience with this project has to create a port.

> I only wished that the other projects reachable from the same MacOSForge's
> home page could have a portfile and could share more resources.

Sure. Who wants to provide and maintain Portfiles for them? E.g. a
request for a calendarserver port is lying around for a long time in the
tickets database already.

> On the Xquartz mailing list someone still suggests not to use MacPorts...

And what should we do about it? If someone recommends against using
MacPorts he might have reasons. And we would need to know his reasons in
order to improve MacPorts.

Rainer