[GNC] Adding Transactions From Another Program

[Adrien Monteleone]

Have you investigated Homebrew vs. MacPorts?

Just curious if the Perl issues are the same.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 30, 2020 w18d121, at 12:29 AM, Hal Vaughan <hal at hal.dance> wrote:
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> I’ve checked out the bindings - as I mentioned in my original post, the problem is that using the bindings on a Mac requires MacPorts.  I’ve had issues before, since MacPorts (and other similar systems) usurp some of the normal paths for things like Perl and Python.  I don’t use Perl for coding anymore, but I have Perl scripts I’ve been using for over a decade that do some simple work for me.  I had an important Perl script I was using that used a specific Perl library.  I don’t remember which one it was, but when I added MacPorts and tried to run my script a week later, it crashed.
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> I had no idea MacPorts, Fink, Homebrew, and similar systems usurped the normal system paths for scripting languages.  When I installed it, and it took over for Perl, it put in a system without all the libraries my scripts used and some of the libraries that were available to me with a standard Perl install (libraries I had installed from CPAN) would not install in the new system.  I had to completely remove MacPorts to get my old scripts to work.
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> I’d love to use MacPorts, since it makes a lot available to me that I can’t easily add now (unless I start using a Linux VM), but that experience taught me never to trust such a system.
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> I think it would be a lot easier for me to do this with Python bindings, but I still use older scripts for things I need to do once a month or once a year and I don’t want to risk breaking them again like they broke about a decade ago when I installed MacPorts.
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> Hal