Re: Mac OS X issues

Peter Lovell wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes, I agree, it's a pain.  It's a shame Apple doesn't include Fink.

> 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).

Well, when this super-tarball is ready, that sounds like a good means to 
distribute everything SableVM needs.  Does it have everything needed for 
Mac OS X?  Maybe respond to the "SableVM + SableVM-CP future merge in 
one tarball or not?" thread.

Chris