A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

[Jonathan Stickel]

On 8/16/11 13:23 , M.E. O'Neill wrote:
> By default, swig has build dependences on bison and gsed.  Yet swig
> builds fine on stock OS X, so special versions of bison and gsed
> are*NOT*  required.  If I remove these build dependences by hand (and
> remove the line that edits the configure script to use gsed rather
> than sed), everything still builds just fine.

I think what you are asking for is the intent of "Homewbrew":

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

Now, I have only read about Homebrew and haven't tried to use it, but I 
can imagine all kinds of gotchas that might arise.