iTerm2

[Rainer Müller]

On 23/06/2023 02.06, Mark Anderson wrote:
> iTerm2 is getting increasingly hard to support building using macports
> to where I'm not even using the build - I've just been trying to fix it.
> The big issue is that building it on the latest box with the latest
> Xcode works great, but the developer rightly assumes that they can just
> send that binary out to everyone and if you can't build it, well,
> download the binary.
> 
> So I'm wondering what exactly to do. We could download the binary for
> all but the latest Xcodes/Macs or if you force it with a source build
> flag? I think that might be the answer.

The upstream binary includes Sparkle and has a self-updater. This will
either not work when installed by MacPorts (due to permissions on the
.app) or it will work interfere with MacPorts, because it installs a new
version without a port upgrade.

Rainer