Ticket #31829 (new submission)
Port for ldx3 ?
| Reported by: | rudloff@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 2.0.3 |
| Keywords: | tiger | Cc: | ryandesign@… |
| Port: | ldx3 |
Description
I am planning to work on a port for TenFourfox (http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/) but to build it on Tiger, we need the Xcode 3 linker backported to 10.4 (http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/downloads/detail?name=ldx3.zip). So I have created a simple port for it, but I am not sure this is the better way to distribute it as it is available only as a binary.
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comment:1 Changed 19 months ago by ryandesign@…
- Cc ryandesign@… added
MacPorts will issue an error if you attempt to install that on anything other than Darwin 8. It would be better to cut it off early, with a pre-fetch block that displays a friendly error message, on OS X versions other than 8.
But I'm curious why a port for tenfourfox is needed at all. They distribute binaries; can't you just install them from their web site? That's what I do... Building something as huge as a browser is difficult business; our firefox ports for example seem to be constantly breaking.
comment:2 Changed 13 months ago by fang@…
If you're interested, feel free to see what I did to package tenfourfox for fink, I'm happy to share the work. I didn't bother packaging ldx3 separately, just listed it as another 'source'. As of today, I've got versions 4-6,8-11 in our stable tree (10.4 and 10.4-EOL), and all versions run smoothly so far.