Packaging an app

Craig Treleaven ctreleaven at macports.org
Thu Dec 29 22:35:30 CET 2016


> On Dec 29, 2016, at 4:33 PM, Vincent Habchi <vince at macports.org> wrote:
> I’m trying to create a redistributable binary of grass7. I just read the relevant webpage on the Macports website. 
> 
> Questions:
> 
> • How to choose a suitable prefix? Any heuristics? Just a shot in the dark?

I’ve never seen anything authoritative.  

> • Must I recompile everything from source, or can I use binaries?

Because all our binaries assume ‘/opt/local’, and you shouldn’t use that, everything must be built from scratch.

Craig



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