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

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:44 PM, 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.

That motivated me to go look at homebrew's home page and associated evangelical sites again, and man, I have never seen so much trash-talking from an OSS group!

That said, they're definitely using the MacPorts decision to "go heavy" (and controlled) vs "go light" against it in a fairly major way, which relates back to the question I just asked:  Time for a re-think, or perhaps even just the creation of some sort of modality such that those who wish to live on the risky edge can set a switch (and advance apologies if that switch already exists and I simply haven't noticed it yet) and those who don't, or who need to support multiple versions of the OS from a single tree (NFS-mounted /opt/local anyone?), can set the switch to the other position.

Thoughts?

- Jordan

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