Re: port "cask" -- installing prebuilt binaries

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 5, 2020, at 07:52, Georges Martin wrote:

> If MacPorts starts to mix both approaches, I worry we may end up having (open 
> source) packages depending on closed source, binary packages.

We already have that, by necessity. For example, php-excel is an open source 
php module that depends on the closed-source libxl library, for which we have a 
port. php-oracle, an open source php module distributed as part of php itself, 
depends on the closed-source oracle-instantclient library, for which we have a 
port.