Macports On Pure Darwin

Jordan K. Hubbard jkh at apple.com
Sun Feb 17 19:49:58 PST 2008


On Feb 17, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Esteban Barahona wrote:

> 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...

  Because it's more work (just being at the CLI doesn't mean MacOSX  
technologies can't easily become dependencies) for pretty much no  
gain.  Darwin as a stand-alone OS is dead and has been dead for enough  
years now that there's just no point in supporting it.

- Jordan



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