iTerm2

[Mark Anderson]

Oh yeah - that's right. Damn. This port is becoming increasingly a pain.

—Mark
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On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 5:57 AM Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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