Macports On Pure Darwin

[Anders F Björklund]

Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> This topic was, in any case, hashed out rather thoroughly back when  
> the project changed its name from DarwinPorts to MacPorts.   GIven  
> the plethora of projects already devoted to multi-platform ports  
> collections (portage, pkgsrc, etc) and the relative shortage of  
> contributors just on one platform (MacOSX), it was decided to focus  
> on providing the best possible experience for MacOSX, anything else  
> being considered a distraction.

MacPorts is still reasonably portable, it's just that it makes more  
sense to try it with living platforms (like FreeBSD or GNU/Linux) for  
portability purposes than to try it with dead ones like Darwin OS -  
at least to me.
If one wanted to use for instance Darwin 8.0.1 for some reason, then  
one could use an archive version of DarwinPorts (like 1.2 that I  
used) to aid in that archeological excavation - you probably wouldn't  
need MacPorts 1.6

The project doesn't seem to have decided yet whether it wants to  
provide the best possible Mac OS X experience, or whether it wants to  
e.g. provide its own bootstrap versions of all the required system  
libraries and binaries ?
So currently other operating systems are tolerated, as long as they  
a) provide the necessary requirements, such as Tcl and Foundation and  
b) don't get in the way of the Mac development, and the platform  
variants should handle that.

Somehow I have the nagging feeling that a pure "Mac" Ports would be  
more gooey and binary, but that's just me...

--anders