z88 Aurora

[Watson Ladd]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> z88 Aurora is open source finite element software and the installation places
>> files in /opt/local. Before proceeding with the installation, I wanted to
>> check with the users group to see if this will interfere with my macports
>> installation?
>
> Yes, it is a problem if the installer puts files into the MacPorts prefix. This
> often happens when developers use MacPorts to build installer packages, but
> don't know that they should configure MacPorts to a custom location other than
> /opt/local for that. Note that other directories in /opt that are *not*
> /opt/local, e.g. /opt/z88 are fine for use by other projects (and in fact the
> right place to put stuff).
>
> Please notify the developers of z88 Aurora about this, if you can.

Why not make a port for z88 Aurora?

>
> Writing files into the MacPorts prefix leads to problems such as those
> described in the ProblemHotlist at
>   http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#xmlwf
>
> --
> Clemens Lang
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