On 5/30/07 10:37 AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On May 30, 2007, at 9:40 AM, paul beard wrote:
I'm getting a sense that people who use double-clickable installers are somehow not "our sort of people." Goodness knows we can always use more snobbery ;-)
I wouldn't argue that at all. I would instead argue that MacPorts is simply not READY to serve people who use double-clickable installers. That has always been a design goal of MacPorts, but it's not there yet. It has a ways to go. It doesn't even know how many of its ports even build at a given time yet, much less have them all packaged up and ready to double click on. :-)
I use double-clickable installers and, though seemingly less and less, Macports via CLI. Some people MUST use double-clickable installers because they have little or no chance of doing even simple command invocation from a CLI, much less dealing with the manifold vagaries *nix ports. There is another notion that, though not necessarily, goes along with the double-clickable installer that is not part of the gestalt of Macports, IMHO. That is that the double-clickable installer contains all that's needed to install the package on it's target. I use a larger proportion of older equipment running older OSs than newer stuff using current issue OSs and have found port things that once worked, no longer do ... repeatedly. However, if I dredge up an old installer on an old machine with an old OS and double-click it, it still seems to get the job done as a rule. -- Walter M. Pawley <walt@wump.org> Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470 541-672-8975