Macports On Pure Darwin

[Esteban Barahona]

El feb 17, 2551 BE, a las 21:49, Jordan K. Hubbard escribió:

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


There has being ~3 attempts to make a 100% FOSS Darwin distro, or to  
bring the concept from the dead... the interest is there... but I  
agree in that MacPorts should support Darwin once it's more mature (as  
a stand-alone OS).

Esteban Barahona
http://www.anagami.net