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 make install where the ./configure part may have _lots_ of options The options may be different on different flavers of unix Macports 1- ports the software to mac os x (ie the people behind MacPorts) 2 - provides reasonble configure alternatives 3 - makes is possibly to have several versions of a particular program and easy to switch between 4 - downloads and compiles the software for you 5 - it also downloads and compiles OTHER software, that the one you really want is dependant on You need macports + develpment tools /Björn