MacPorts For 10.15 Catalina

[Joshua Root]

On 2019-9-26 23:26 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 15:16, Shichao Dou wrote:
>>
>> I have a question to ask. I upgraded macOS to 10.15 Catalina Beta, but I found that my MacPorts were not working.
>>
>> Want to know if there is a 10.15 Catalina update plan? When will it be released?
> 
> MacPorts should work on 10.15 if you compile and install the macports
> base from source:
>     https://www.macports.org/install.php#source
> 
> Because of the NDA we are not allowed to provide binaries, but the
> sources should work, and the new binaries are expected very soon after
> the release gets out of beta phase.
> 
> You should of course expect some problems here and there (in
> particular the gcc compiler no longer works out of the box with the
> release of the new xcode version), mostly because various software
> authors have probably not yet adapted their source code to the
> potentially stricter compiler, changes of the API in the new OS
> release etc.

If you run the beta, the expectation should be that there will be
issues, and you may need to help fix them.

- Josh