Re-do MacPorts after upgrading from Tiger to Leopard on PPC?
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Mar 20 17:05:42 PDT 2009
On Mar 17, 2009, at 22:29, Jerry wrote:
> I'm not being ungrateful because believe me, I'm just the opposite.
> However, I would like to offer a bit of feedback. My experience
> with MacPorts has been pretty bad. If I had really _needed_ any of
> the software that I tried to install, as opposed to just evaluating
> it, I would have been pretty hosed, I'm afraid. I mostly appreciate
> the ambitious goal of MacPorts and I might try again later, but not
> soon. As I recall, I was mainly interested in wxMaxima (a symbolic
> math program), gcc with Ada (GNAT), and LyX (a technical word
> processor). I never succeeded in installing any of these from
> MacPorts.
I'm sorry to hear you were unable to install these ports. If in the
future you wish to try again and you run into problems, please do
report the specific details of the failures to us either here on the
list or in the issue tracker so that someone can look into it.
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