On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, James Keenan wrote:
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> In http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=51622, Alberto
> Sim??es and I discussed the merits of creating a new configuration
> step class, to be run on Darwin only, which would detect the
> installation of Macports in the same way that step class auto::fink
> detects Fink.
Did you mean to call this auto::macports, or is this step intended to
eventually encompass the FreeBSD-style ports collection as well. I don't
know if macports is a derivative of FreeBSD ports or not. I do know that
NetBSD and OpenBSD both also have a "ports" collection, though I think all
the *BSD collections are reasonably similar.
If macports is indeed similar to FreeBSD ports, then this is good step
forward. If it is not, however, you might want to reserve the name
auto:ports for the FreeBSD-style ports collection.
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
