Re: [Visualpython-users] Help with Boost on Mac OS

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> We can use fink to get packages we need for BUILDING Visual, as long as we can incorporate static libraries so that a user doesn't need fink. 

You can always repeat manually what Fink does. Most of a Fink package 
description is just a short documentation of the steps necessary to get 
the sources, patch them and build and install the package. You can use 
the experience and information contained in the package description to 
build things yourself.

Of course, this goes both ways: Once you manage to create an aqua 
version of vpython, I will probably try to make a Fink package of it, 
because I consider Fink also as a convenient all-purpose package 
manager. I consider typing a single command "fink install visual-py25" 
simpler than reading and following any instructions to download and 
install a package, even if it exists in the form of a dmg with 
precompiled binaries in it.

-- 
Martin