Re: GSoC: Improve binary packaging on Mac OS X

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 5 August 2013 16:14, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am not a Mac user, so maybe my questions might seem lame to everyone. The
> Macports website says "We provide a single software tree that attempts to
> track the latest release of every software title (port) we distribute ...
> targeting mainly the current Mac OS X release (10.8, A.K.A. Mountain Lion)
> and the immediately previous two (10.7, A.K.A. Lion and 10.6, A.K.A. Snow
> Leopard)." Doesn't this mean that we can get Octave's dependencies for
> different versions of Mac OS?

Yes, but the point of your project, as I understand it, was to make it
possible for anyone to build Octave and not depend on external package
management. MXE is supposed to do this.

- Jordi G. H.