port "cask" -- installing prebuilt binaries

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Aug 7 07:01:50 UTC 2020



On Aug 6, 2020, at 09:10, Ken Cunningham wrote:

> So a port that installs the Zoom teleconferencing application would be called "zoom_binary". (We can't use "zoom-binary" because variants us the + and - to do their thing.)

Calling it "zoom-binary" would be fine. Yes, "+" and "-" are used to select and deselect variants, but MacPorts allows "-" in port names; we already have thousands of ports with "-" in their names.



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