Macports On Pure Darwin

Esteban Barahona esteban.barahona at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 19:40:42 PST 2008


El feb 17, 2551 BE, a las 15:01, Jordan K. Hubbard escribió:

> 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.
>
> - Jordan


That may be the main objective, but why not also support darwin  
without the propietary parts of Mac OS X? As I understand it, if it  
runs on Darwin it must run on Mac OS X... but I guess it's CLI-only  
apps...

Esteban Barahona
http://www.anagami.net





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