MacPorts 1.5.2 now available

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-08-29 20:28:30 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> But we always want users to compile MacPorts base using the gcc
> provided with Apple Xcode. We don't want people attempting to use
> any other version of gcc.

Does MacPorts ensures that Xcode gcc is used?

>> Couldn't MacPorts be made compatible with the GNU readline API?
>
> I thought it already was. I think the problem is not that MacPorts is not 
> compatible with GNU readline, but that users sometimes have incredibly old 
> versions of readline in /usr/local which are (apparently) insufficient for 
> MacPorts. We don't want to link against incredibly old (or even up-to-date) 
> versions of software the user has installed themselves.

Then that's a user-side problem. The best fix is to remove/replace this
incredibly old version of readline.

> We want to use software managed by MacPorts where at all possible.
> ANnd for the bootstrapping process of of initially getting MacPorts
> installed, it's reasonable to use just Apple software.

But Apple software has bugs. For instance, its readline doesn't support
UTF-8. I don't know if it can be useful, but anyway the user could type
non-ASCII characters by mistake, try to remove them, leading to wrong
commands.

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