[KDE/Mac] KDEPIM on OS X Build Service

Bjoern Ricks bjoern.ricks at intevation.de
Tue Aug 30 09:28:57 UTC 2011



On Tuesday 30 August 2011 09:37:37 Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011 09:20:53 schrieb Bjoern Ricks:
> > After using brew instead of macports it came to my mind that
> > I'll try to write my own system, because I really like a mixture of both
> > macports and brew. Also I would like to be able to use the package
> > management system on linux.
>
> To me the most important point is the critical mass of the community.
> Macports and fink at least seem to have a community with more width and a
> longer breath. There might be some technical downsides, but there always
> are. I am very grateful for the all the initiatives and I would like to
> honor them.

Of course the macports community is a big and very productive community. 
Theses guys are really aware of the specialities of mac os. But macports has 
several disadvantages on developer, distributor and user perspective. I would 
have written a comparision for mac os package management systems for a long 
time. Don't let us decide the the package manager yet. We need use cases 
first and a clear vision of want we to estabish with our new build server.

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