[Xastir] OS X binary

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, N1OFZ wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just finished a Xastir binary installer for OS X.  It is 17 MB and includes 
> ImageMagick, libproj, ShapeLib, pcre, dbfawk and map caching.  Before it is 
> released I will also try to add GeoTiff support.  The only requirement is

Shouldn't be much to it; I've been using geotiff support ~forever. The 
only trick is getting link order right if you include gdal and geotiff, 
and I think we fixed that.

> I was going to include Apple's X11 installer and do a .mpkg so there would be 
> no dependencies.  However, the size of the package would go up 4X.  In 
> addition I'm not sure I can redistribute Apple's package.  So I have been 
> experimenting with downloading it with curl and installing from the command 
> line on the fly during the install process.  Any OS X users have thoughts?

Doing so is slightly unfriendly, one might be installing while using a 
charge-per-packet network for instance. Of course asking first is hard 
with .pkgs.