On May 10, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Diane White wrote:
Please excuse me, but what exactly is MacPorts? How does it work?
Is it
really what I want to use? I found Mac Ports through looking at
another
program called Jailkit, and there was another website (the
predecessor to
MacPorts?) called
10 maj 2007 kl. 20.18 skrev Diane White:
Please excuse me, but what exactly is MacPorts
It is a package manager for mac os x (with friends) if that concept
is familiar.
Basically, it automates the standard way of building software on unix.
usually, on unix you do
./configure
make
sudo ma
Diane, MacPorts... MacPorts, Diane. Okay now you're introduced. :)
MacPorts is a distribution of Unix utilities for the Macintosh, like the
Fink project. MacPorts is a framework of port files that allows the user
to download, compile, and install all the necessary dependancies for
Unix utilities (
Please excuse me, but what exactly is MacPorts? How does it work? Is it
really what I want to use? I found Mac Ports through looking at another
program called Jailkit, and there was another website (the predecessor to
MacPorts?) called DarwinPorts. Unfortunately, the main page of MacPorts
does
