Re: macosx installation

[Jason Helfman <jason.helfman@gmail.com>]

That's it! I do have Xcode installed, but would like to use the
homebrew port as that is what I had used before. I was just surprised
that this isn't mentioned on the website as an alterate installation
method for MacOSX on the download page.

Many thanks,
-jgh

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On 12/31/10 17:56, Tony Theodore wrote:
>> On 1 January 2011 11:36, Chris Anderson <cva@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> assuming you have the OSX developer tools installed, you can just follow the
>>> "Installing Tarsnap from source" instructions
>>> on https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html.
>>
>> The notes at the link above are probably the best way to go, but it's
>> also available via homebrew:
>>
>> http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
>
> I don't use OS X and have no direct experience here, but FWIW I've never heard
> any complaints about the homebrew tarsnap build.
>
> --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
> Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
>



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