Universal and binary builds

[Joshua Root]

Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> [...]
>> We could also resume building RPMS, if someone wants to spend
>> some time on that. The build script could probably produce both
>> archives and packages in the same run, from the same destroot.
> 
> 
> RPM may be appealing to many for various reasons and I won't argue that.
> 
> Apple has created the package format for distributing binaries and it is
> familiar to most users and does not require any additional software be
> installed.
> 
> If macports binaries were packaged in osx package format wouldn't that
> be more native and there by more attractive then rpms?

The package format is practically irrelevant for use within MacPorts
since all the necessary info should be stored in the registry.

For distributing to users who don't have MP installed, .pkg is nice
until you want to uninstall...

- Josh