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English => Multiplatform => Mac OSX => Topic started by: lordzed on March 04, 2008, 12:11:12 PM

Title: www.macports.org
Post by: lordzed on March 04, 2008, 12:11:12 PM

Why don't you have aMule included in Macports?
The compilation process would be much easier for us users.

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: blackfede on March 04, 2008, 01:27:50 PM

It is not a decision of amule dev, but of macport maintainer. Inserting a port in macport is a decision taken by them.  ;D

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: lordzed on March 04, 2008, 08:47:45 PM

A maintainer doesn't have to be necessarily a MacPorts staff member. Anyone with enough technical skills is eligible.

So a developer, for instance, would be the ideal choice. Just my two cents.

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: wuischke on March 04, 2008, 09:18:47 PM

How does such a mac port work? Is it like a gentoo ebuild or an Arch PKGBUILD? (You know, we are chronically short on people with Mac knowledge... Currently we have about...zero)

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: isulzer on March 05, 2008, 12:59:20 AM

err... macports can follow the standard gnu make steps... i.e configure make and install. but uses tcl scripts so you can check for and install library dependencies i guess.

http://guide.macports.org/#development.introduction (http://guide.macports.org/#development.introduction)

should answer all your questions, wuischke

might be fun to write the portfile for amule...

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: lordzed on March 05, 2008, 09:57:52 AM

isulzer is right.

obviously the maintainer(s) must also take care of bugs (that's why I thought of a developer).

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: blackfede on March 05, 2008, 11:39:12 PM

@ wuischke: Yes macport is like  emerge on gentoo, but less powerful in the management of dependecies. But it does its work!

@all:
What about a little Fundraising between macuser to buy a macmini to an amuledev? So we can hope in a better support for our platform! We need to reach $599, not so much! Maybe if we look on ebay we can save a bit...

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: eisa01 on March 06, 2008, 02:48:17 PM

Do we have devs in the US though? Buying a Mac in Europe is a lot more expensive.

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: GonoszTopi on March 08, 2008, 12:28:11 AM

Yes, we have a "retired admin" in the US (afaik).

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: blackfede on March 26, 2008, 03:41:06 PM

Maybe, we cal look for Refurbished mac at Apple Store Site (http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=44BD9AA1&nclm=CertifiedMac)

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: wuischke on March 26, 2008, 06:03:19 PM

lfroen said he wanted to buy a Macboox the next month.[1] (http://forum.amule.org/index.php?topic=14657.msg77742#msg77742) This should solve our problem.

Title: Re: www.macports.org
Post by: blackfede on March 26, 2008, 07:22:34 PM

Good news! Tnks!