Open Source Mac - Free, Open-Source software for OS X

Rainer Müller raimue at codingfarm.de
Wed May 30 09:22:17 PDT 2007


paul beard wrote:
>> http://www.opensourcemac.org/
>> 
>> How many of these are available through MacPorts? Might be worth
>> letting them know that using MacPorts can make their audiences life
>> easier.

Most of them contain an auto-updater (Sparkle [1]) which conflicts with
MacPorts. Imagine an user installs such an Application through MacPorts
and then the auto-updater installs a new version in the
/Applications/MacPorts area. I don't think we got a way to handle this.

If they offer a way to be build without auto-updater it would be ok to
create Portfiles for them.

Rainer

[1] http://sparkle.artworkapp.com/




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