Qt4 Poll

[Michael Dickens]

I agree with Rainer all around.

Apple uses frameworks, but most non-OSX-native projects do not & they
generally work just fine when ported without frameworks to OSX.  Qt and
Python are two of the few exceptions of which I know that can do
framework installs; I'm sure there are others.  That said, I don't think
you (generically) are require to install a framework-based library to
use Aqua or Cocoa or whatever -- you just have to link correctly to get
access to those OSX-internals.  That's what we do in GNU Radio-land, and
it seems to work just fine.  I might be missing a few subtle details of
the actual execution, but I think the over-arching concept is valid. -
MLD

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:07 +0200, "Rainer Müller" <raimue at macports.org>
wrote:
> The only reason we ever switched to frameworks with python25 was to get
> pythonw running. Otherwise that was only causing lots of troubles with
> the paths as dependents were not using the correct way to determine
> installation directories.
> 
> Frameworks ought to be _relocatable_ and that is one of the main purpose
> of them. But we are not able to provide this with MacPorts. So it's not
> a reason to stick to a framework just because we are on a Mac.