Re(3): Mac OS X issues

On Apr 20, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Chris Pickett wrote:

> What about Fink?  Too much overhead for the average user?  There are 
> lots and lots of nice goodies in there.

True, and I use many of the pieces. But I was trying to make it as easy 
as possible for OS X users to get and use sablevm. Some will be 
developers and be reasonably comfortable but others will be more like 
end-users and be put off by too much installation.

But anyhow, the fink version is only at 1.18 still (at least for 
"stable"). The opendarwin version is 1.22 but to get it you have to 
install darwinports itself and then build jikes from source. Not too 
hard for a developer but quite a hurdle for some others.

For the same reason, it might be nice to include popt library pre-built 
for OS X (which I think GBP was working towards for some platforms 
also).

Cheers.....Peter