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volock · 03-09-2010, 09:01 PM

I opened this thread because I wanted to get some feedback and had a couple of questions about the status of Calibre with these two programs.

For those of you who don't know Darwin Ports, Fink and Mac Ports are utilities designed to allow you to easily install and update software packages. The idea being that incremental releases become simpler, and whichever one you are using, can build dependencies and pre-install them. There are a considerable number of software packages available this way including: VLC, Python, X11, GIMP, just to name a few.

Having read through the user forums, as I understand it there currently isn't a port available under any of these. From reading the forums I know that Kovid said that he didn't object to the developement of a port, but didn't plan to create or work to maintain one (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ht=fink&page=2). I also know that the users mwheinz and krischik both worked on/talked about a macport of the project, but that there wasn't any further discussion.

As things currently stand I actual check out the source and have been using my own port file to build Calibre for my Mac (OSX 10.6 with 64bit EFI) for a dozen plus releases. I was wondering what interest if any there is from other in my fully developing the port file. Currently it's setup so that it works for OSX 10.5/10.6 (haven't tested it on earlier versions) and is actually handling the build for both 32 bit and 64 bit (though its set for if 64 bit fails, to run the compile flagged for 32 bit). I was also wondering if Kovid had any comments / opinions on the developement of the portfiles, along with the two previously mentioned users since I saw one had setup a google code SVN (http://code.google.com/p/macport-sta...pec=svn31&r=31) for calibre.

I decided to finally join in on the forums here, because since I went through the trouble of getting it working, whether others would be interested in using it (and subsequently worth my time to submit it to macports over having it as a local repository) and taking the time to update and commit changes to provide an easier way to update Calibre (along with a considerably smaller file size / update size). The other main advantage is that when there are significant updates to included libraries, it's easier to update them, along with not having to have multiple copies of the same library installed.

As I've come to understand there isn't a Fink/DarwinPorts/MacPorts version of Calibre.

03-09-2010, 09:01 PM	#1
volock volock Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Southwest, USA Device: Kindle DX (US Version)	Macports / Fink version of Calibre I opened this thread because I wanted to get some feedback and had a couple of questions about the status of Calibre with these two programs. For those of you who don't know Darwin Ports, Fink and Mac Ports are utilities designed to allow you to easily install and update software packages. The idea being that incremental releases become simpler, and whichever one you are using, can build dependencies and pre-install them. There are a considerable number of software packages available this way including: VLC, Python, X11, GIMP, just to name a few. Having read through the user forums, as I understand it there currently isn't a port available under any of these. From reading the forums I know that Kovid said that he didn't object to the developement of a port, but didn't plan to create or work to maintain one (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ht=fink&page=2). I also know that the users mwheinz and krischik both worked on/talked about a macport of the project, but that there wasn't any further discussion. As things currently stand I actual check out the source and have been using my own port file to build Calibre for my Mac (OSX 10.6 with 64bit EFI) for a dozen plus releases. I was wondering what interest if any there is from other in my fully developing the port file. Currently it's setup so that it works for OSX 10.5/10.6 (haven't tested it on earlier versions) and is actually handling the build for both 32 bit and 64 bit (though its set for if 64 bit fails, to run the compile flagged for 32 bit). I was also wondering if Kovid had any comments / opinions on the developement of the portfiles, along with the two previously mentioned users since I saw one had setup a google code SVN (http://code.google.com/p/macport-sta...pec=svn31&r=31) for calibre. I decided to finally join in on the forums here, because since I went through the trouble of getting it working, whether others would be interested in using it (and subsequently worth my time to submit it to macports over having it as a local repository) and taking the time to update and commit changes to provide an easier way to update Calibre (along with a considerably smaller file size / update size). The other main advantage is that when there are significant updates to included libraries, it's easier to update them, along with not having to have multiple copies of the same library installed. As I've come to understand there isn't a Fink/DarwinPorts/MacPorts version of Calibre.