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

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Wed Aug 17 01:57:44 PDT 2011


>> 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.

Almost forgot GTK-OSX (jhbuild) and my new build scripts, so more like 6+.

--anders



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