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

[Anders F Björklund]

M.E. O'Neill wrote:

> Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Because what the Mac really needed was yet another packaging solution.  How many is that now?

I'm counting 4 or so. Most of which doesn't have any packages available!
That would be MacPorts (port), Fink (fink), Homebrew (brew) and my RPMS.

Of course everybody hates .rpm so I converted most of them to .pkg, but.

> The quote at the bottom of the Brew front page is telling: “Homebrew is the bee's knees, friends. So far it's a perfect replacement for MacPorts.”
> 
> If people want to replace MacPorts, that seems to imply that MacPorts had a (potential) community of users it failed to serve.  Brew currently has 1653 ports (or in its terms, "formulas"), that ought to tell you that they've been able to get some traction.

Especially considering that there are *no* ports for perl/python/ruby etc.

That's something of a drawback, however, if you actually want e.g. PyGTK.
You can get GTK+ through it, but only the X11 version and not any PyGTK ?

--anders