Re: [q-lang-users] Compiling Q on Mac OS X

[Ryan S. <q-l...@ry...>]

On Dec 16, 2007, at 13:37, Albert Graef wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Yes, apparently the last update to the Q port in MacPorts was 3 years
>> ago. The maintainer seems to have disappeared. So I'll take it over
>> and can hopefully keep it better maintained from now on.
>
> That's *very* good news. I'll update our website so that it points to
> MacPorts asap.

Super! I think MacPorts is the easiest way to install software that's  
distributed in source form on a Mac, so a pointer on your web site  
would be great.


>> I'll keep them for now. In the portfiles we like to be a bit more
>> explicit about dependencies, and not let configure pick up whatever
>> it finds.
>
> Ok, I see. Do you plan to support any of the other addons in the  
> future?
> Q has interfaces to some pretty nice 3rd party libraries, and  
> AFAICT the
> necessary dependencies are all readily available in MacPorts.

I don't use Q myself, so I'm not familiar with what all would be  
appropriate to add. Certainly I can add variants to the portfile that  
bring in additional dependencies and features. If users (or you) note  
anything that's missing, they can file enhancement requests in our  
issue tracker and assign them to me, and I'll be happy to see what  
needs to be done.