On Mar 14, 2015, at 2:26 PM, Marko Käning <mk-macpo...@techno.ms> wrote:
> Brad, > > On 14 Mar 2015, at 22:20 , Bradley Giesbrecht <pixi...@macports.org> wrote: >> The users I am attempting to serve currently get nothing because installing >> Xcode, CLT, MacPorts and then installing deps with non-default variants >> before building the target (octave in this case) is beyond their >> capabilities or patience. > > I absolutely can see where you are coming from… :-) > > Did you read the thread entitled > > "A (non)success story of digiKam on OSX/MacPorts involving kde4-workspace > and qtcurve” > > which I wrote this afternoon? Same thing! Yes I did. Yes, same thing. > Installing all these dependencies is only acceptable for techies like us, but > a normal > user will never bother to deal with all the hassle. I think we have an opportunity to extend what MacPorts does well to include relocatable packages or mdmg packages in a way that third parties can build distributable packages untethered from MacPorts and Xcode. Gimp, Kdenlive, digiKam, Octave and many KDE "things" would sing praises to MacPorts. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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