On Jul 12, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:

fwiw, my experience with using MacPorts and other Mac package suppliers has been less than joyful.

In this context, Mac Port means `a variant of the ui code that use Carbon and native mac toolkits, as opposed to the NS port that's in the tree', not anything to do with the MacPorts package system. It's available here:

On Jun 11, 2012, at 12:29 AM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:

[...]

Emacs 24 Mac port 3.0 is now available from

ftp://ftp.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp/emacs/emacs-24.1-mac-3.0.tar.gz

Search the list archives for `Emacs Mac port'; there's a small patch that you probably want if you're going to try it out.

*Chad