port diagnose and xcode

[James Secan]

I truly appreciate everyone who maintains things for MP - couldn’t live without this stuff.  My initial query was just trying to understand whether ‘port diagnose’ was telling me something I should be concerned about.  I think the answer was ‘no’.

Jim
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> On Mar 11, 2022, at 2:21 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2022, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>> MacPorts is not (just) 'a simple package manager'. Yes, it performs this 
>> function, but first and foremost (and long before we even had binary 
>> tarballs to distribute as a 'package mnager') it is a system for 
>> building packages and their dependencies. To build something you require 
>> a compiler. Many ports will build fine with just the Apple CLT package, 
>> but some indeed require the full Xcode installation in order to be built 
>> (and Xcode also is not just an IDE, but is also a command line build 
>> system).
> 
> I couldn't have put it better myself; the fact that some packages 
> (contributed to MacPorts) require Xcode is hardly MacPorts' fault.
> 
> I dips me lid to the MP maintainers for what is obviously a thankless job.
> 
> -- Dave