Re: [RFC] QEMU as Xcode project on macOS

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:35:46AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:14, Christian Schoenebeck
> <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com> wrote:
> > For developers it is actually the complete opposite on Mac: you start to
> > install things from somewhere, then you need to install something from
> > somewhere else, manually build & install stuff, and you end up in conflicts
> > and misbehaviours all over the place.
> 
> This has not been my experience -- homebrew has everything, and
> it doesn't have problems like this.
> 
> > The way to go for devs on Mac is: 3rd party libs should not be installed 
> > into
> > global space, rather be built & linked either as dynamic frameworks 
> > (including
> > assets) or as static libs. Then apps always run with the precise version and
> > flags of libs they were tested with and never conflict with another app's
> > version/config of libs.
> 
> Does Apple (or anybody else) provide a framework for doing this
> so that developers of individual applications can just say "my
> app needs libs X, Y, Z" and they don't have to mess around
> finding, figuring out how to compile, and shipping the sources of
> libs X, Y, Z? If there's a better mechanism than Homebrew for this
> that's great, but at the moment what you seem to be saying is
> "you should do a lot more work to manually set something up where
> you ship the sources to all your dependencies and then build them
> all". There's no way we're ever going to do that, it is just
> way too much work for very little gain.

AFAICT both MacPorts and HomeBrew can be installed into custom locations,
at least if you do a "from source" install of them, rather than using the
pre-built packages.

Regards,
Daniel
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