I think this is a valid and useful extension of MP's mission. -- Sal smile. -------------- Salvatore Domenick Desiano Doctoral Candidate Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Pierre Queinnec wrote: o Hi all, o o Eridius pointed me on IRC to MacFUSE, the recently released FUSE port to OS X. o I wanted to see if there is interest in having it in our ports. o o There is a major drawback in having kernel modules in the ports in the fact o that it's a tad easier for curious & inexperienced users to mess up their o systems. Of course, it's also a lot cooler for some of us to just install o sshfs and make it work without spending too much time. This drawback could o probably be addressed by having a separate category (something called 'kernel' o for example) where we'd warn users that they can mess their systems up if they o don't know what they're doing. o o My first question is wether we want kexts in MacPorts at once. FUSE would be a o fine addition then, we could also add something like a tun/tap device. If we o are to just distribute the userland stuff, it's going to be harder to get o users to update their kexts to match the userland libs versions. o o Thoughts on this? o -- Pierre o _______________________________________________ o macports-dev mailing list o macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org o http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev o o