10.12 build bot offline ?

2018-12-06 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi, I’ve noticed that the 10.12 builedbot has been offline for a while now. https://build.macports.org/waterfall what’s up with it ? cheers Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: macports challenges

2018-12-06 Thread Ruben Di Battista
I wanted to provide my feedback w.r.t. this topic.  I also contribute to other “package manager”, a bit more tailored to HPC (EasyBuild and Spack) and in my opinion, more than the actual advertisement, the real hindering factor for Macports is TCL. TCL is hard, at least compared to Ruby or

Re: macports challenges

2018-12-06 Thread Jonathan Stickel
I'm glad to see some constructive discussion. After I sent the email, I was quite worried of the negative tone, and that it might be perceived as trolling. Sorry if that is true; it was not my attention. On 12/6/18 01:13, Nils Breunese wrote: Rainer Müller wrote: Somehow the Homebrew

Re: macports rot

2018-12-06 Thread Nils Breunese
Rainer Müller wrote: > Somehow the Homebrew community managed to get their ubiquitous marketing > on almost every software project website. Compare this with the MacPorts > website, which has not seen any redesign in more than 10 years... > > Although a good package management system should not