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

[M.E. O'Neill]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
>>> 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+.

Don't forget i-Installer (now largely defunct), and TexLive (which packages software and includes an updater).  Then there's Apple's .pkg files, as made by PackageMaker and similar tools.  And then we have CPAN, gems, and eggs, and all that stuff.

    M.E.O.