| 1 | 1 | Once upon a time, the ports (like firefox and thunderbird) were added as part of the applications available for running in a X11 desktop environment on Mac OS X and PureDarwin (such as Xfce*). Having Cocoa versions didn't really help, and either way there were very few interested in building even those from source - as most would just run with the binaries from Mozilla or never switch their browser. So it all depends on who the target audience is, whether they care about alternative desktop environments and about (building from) open source or not. For most users, it's much easier to run FreeBSD in a virtual machine than trying to get such a Darwin environment running again... I suppose you could just ask PureDarwin.org to support their own ports, if you want to want to be MacPorts first and foremost ? |
