The inscrutability of the install process is largely due to current limitations in macro debugging, combined with the fact that BinDeps does a lot of macro magic. This makes BinDeps difficult to debug because the error line is given as the macro invocation line.
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Tobias Knopp <tobias.kn...@googlemail.com>wrote: > I think everybody agrees that better error messages would be great. And > having myself also issues with homebrew I have to agree that it would be > cool if the installation of things like Winston would be more solid. But in > the end this is a community project and I am pretty confident that > everybody involved in these packages gives his best to make everything work. > > Personally I am not sure if it might be easier to simply ship some of the > core graphics packages in binary form on OSX and Windows. This goes in the > direction of *default packages* that is discussed on the julia issue > tracker. >
