Compile release 20100701 failure on OS X

[Anand Buddhdev]

On 13/08/2010 21:20, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:

Hi Jinmei Tatuya,

> At Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:23:00 +0200,
> Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
>> Compiling all this on MacOS X is quite a long process, because one needs
>> to install Python 3.1, and then Boost. I think people may appreciate a
>> MacPort, to make it easier to install BIND 10. I'll create a Portfile
>> when I have some time, and submit it to MacPorts.
> 
> We understand building BIND 10 is not so trivial, and have been trying
> to lower the bar of introduction.  For example, the latest version
> doesn't require boost libraries, so you can only download a tar ball
> of boost and specify the path to boost header files using
> --with-boost-include.  (Of course, if you can use an OS-supplied
> package system to install boost that may be simpler).

Thank you for letting me know about this. I will try this out, so that I
can try to avoid installing boost.

> We also understand requiring Python 3 may be a blocking reason and are
> wondering whether to switch to Python 2.  We'd like to know opinions
> of other users on this point: whether you'd be more willing to
> actually try BIND 10 if we switched to python 2.

I wouldn't switch to Python 2. Python 3 is the future, and by the time
BIND 10 matures into production code, Python 3 may be the default on
many systems. I think you're on the right track using Python 3.

> Finally, MacPort portfile sounds like a great idea.  Thanks for your
> offer!

I still haven't made one, but I will try to create one soon, and let you
know.

Regards,

Anand