Re: problems with graphviz port and selfupdate

On Aug 29, 2006, at 7:35 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> Hi Lisa. I'll make some comments below, but since you say you'd  
> like to avoid compiling anyway, please consider using my  
> precompiled Mac OS X builds of Graphviz 2.9 here:
>
> http://www.ryandesign.com/graphviz/
>
> I believe Graphviz should not be requiring urw-fonts, but should  
> rather work with the user's Mac OS X fonts. I do not know whether  
> the MacPorts version of Graphviz works like this, but mine above does.

It would be wonderful to have your changes available to MacPorts as a  
graphviz +quartz variant. The ability to use Quartz in place of the  
built-in renderers would be tremendously useful. You refer to several  
patches on the graphviz mailing lists, so are your changes not yet  
integrated with the main graphviz source yet? If they apply to the  
main source distribution, it should be easy to apply your patches for  
a variant.

The ability to build a Quartz-enabled graphviz package via MacPorts  
would be great. In a perfect world, that would also include an  
updated version of the graphviz.app Cocoa GUI. :)

Chris