On 2016-01-04 20:53, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> Chad Brown <yandros@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Speaking for myself: I do not use any form of the Mac port, but instead use
>> the NS port (under Mac OSX), because I want to track the mainline (or the
>> release candidate when such exists). From what I’ve seen, there are things
>> in the Mac port that I would like to have (e.g. with regards to select), but
>> I forgo in order to help (minimally) emacs development.
>
> Thanks, Chad, this highlights a reason beyond the personal why I'd like Mac
> Port in the main-line: I recommend it every Mac user I know, but many are not
> willing to go through the extra effort of patching their sources to build it.
> Instead, they download binaries from emacsformacosx.com, and never get to
> experience how nice Emacs can be on OS X.

Building it with homebrew is fairly simple:
https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

Best,

Alan

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