Macports On Pure Darwin

[Yves de Champlain]

Le 08-02-18 à 07:52, Anders F Björklund a écrit :

> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
>>> 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 ?
>>
>> The two are not mutually exclusive.  MacPorts provides its own
>> bootstrap versions in order to better control the overall experience.
>
> The current experience on Tiger is pretty decent, but the experience
> on Leopard is not so great (yet).
>
> Not saying the two are exclusive, but a recurring question is why one
> should use the outdated and outfeatured versions provided by MacPorts
> instead of using the updated and customized ones available from the
> new System ? (some examples here being Python and Ruby) Of course
> this could also be fixed by updating the ports, at least for the
> +darwin_9 platform. But it does raise the question why it is trying
> so hard to not use the system libraries and binaries*, if only
> catering for the latest and greatest releases from Apple anyway ? So
> as long as those other platforms provide necessary requirements, I
> think they should be allowed still...

They sure might provide theses requirements, but for how long ?  Is it  
worth it when you will have to force rebuild every single port because  
Leopard's libxml is outdated ?

As for the customized frameworks, it may make some sense.

yves