> Speaking of package management, I notice that MAME isn't included in Macports. > > This isn't a huge deal for me personally, but (lack of a port maintainer for it > aside) is there any reason why it could be undesirable to have it included? With the > new 'unified' build model for it under OS X, slotting it in shouldn't be a huge > nightmare - or have I missed something?
My understanding is that MacPorts does everything POSIX-style. MAME is intended to be built OSX-native, with the native framework version of SDL (MacPorts uses POSIX-style SDL built against X11). There is some support in the build system for POSIX-on-Mac because a few very loud people demanded it, but the resulting build is not supported and I don't want to hear about it when they find out it's slower and clunkier and less compatible with roms.
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