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manage without prior knowledge on Tcl. I'd suggest the Tcl Tutorial:
  http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html

> - Why some ports are not available as binary packages? Are there
> portability issues in compiling these?

There are multiple reasons why a port might not be available as binary:
 - First, binary downloads are only used when some configuration
   variables are still at their default, e.g. prefix=/opt/local,
   applications_dir=/Applications/MacPorts.
 - Second, we only build the default variants of every port. Building
   every possible combination of variants would probably be
   computationally expensive. We're trying to gather statistical data to
   build popular variants, but that work hasn't been deployed yet.
 - Third, while building might work, licenses don't always permit us to
   distribute the binaries we build. For the same reason, ports that do
   not specify their license aren't distributed (which doesn't mean they
   aren't built on the buildbots, though)

> - I didn't find much information about the current status of the
> binary building system, could someone elaborate on that? Specifically,
> which other tasks does this project expect besides those mentioned in
> the wiki?

I'm not very familiar with the binary build system. Maybe somebody else
on this list has some insight into this?

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Clemens Lang