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lordzed

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www.macports.org
« 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.
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #1 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
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #3 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)
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #4 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

should answer all your questions, wuischke

might be fun to write the portfile for amule...
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #5 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).
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #6 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...
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2008, 12:28:11 AM »
Yes, we have a "retired admin" in the US (afaik).
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2008, 03:41:06 PM »
Maybe, we cal look for Refurbished mac at Apple Store Site
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2008, 06:03:19 PM »
lfroen said he wanted to buy a Macboox the next month.[1] This should solve our problem.
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Re: www.macports.org
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2008, 07:22:34 PM »
Good news! Tnks!
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