On 1/26/21 9:41 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> I have used MacPorts to package a substantial application (MythTV). As an
> overview, MythTV and all its dependencies were installed to a custom prefix
> (/opt/dvr)*. A couple of helper apps (Applescripts, if you want the full
> truth) are the
> On Jan 26, 2021, at 9:13 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
>
> Possibly relevant: I'm co-maintainer of Octave.app, a "native" Mac app
> distribution of GNU Octave (https://octave-app.org/). It's currently
> built on top of Homebrew.
>
> I'm tentatively planning on migrating Octave.app to be built on
On 1/26/21 3:50 PM, Nils Breunese wrote:
> Christopher Nielsen wrote:
>
>> One advantage that HomeBrew does have, though, is cachet: There are so many
>> times when articles - or even organizations, such as Google - simply
>> recommend using HomeBrew… with no mention of MacPorts.
> I think
FWIW (on FreeBSD; apologies for semi-off-topic; I won't continue any
further discussion on-list):
If you want more frequent pkg updates, create the file
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf with contents:
FreeBSD: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest;
}
This will switch you
Christopher Nielsen wrote:
> One advantage that HomeBrew does have, though, is cachet: There are so many
> times when articles - or even organizations, such as Google - simply
> recommend using HomeBrew… with no mention of MacPorts.
I think it’s a great idea to always send pull requests to
>
> One advantage that HomeBrew does have, though, is cachet: There are so
> many times when articles - or even organizations, such as Google - simply
> recommend using HomeBrew… with no mention of MacPorts.
>
> So, my feeling is that we need to up our public relations game. Do we have
> an active
On 2021-1-27 02:57 , Andrew Janke wrote:
I didn't know that! I must be behind the times with the state of
MacPorts. Thanks for the update.
About a decade behind -- the buildbot went live in 2011. ;)
- Josh
I didn't know that! I must be behind the times with the state of
MacPorts. Thanks for the update.
Cheers,
Andrew
On 1/26/21 10:54 AM, Marius Schamschula wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> MacPorts provides pre-built packages for more macOS versions than
> Homebrew.
>
> However, MacPorts is very careful not to
Andrew,
MacPorts provides pre-built packages for more macOS versions than Homebrew.
However, MacPorts is very careful not to provide packages where the upstream
license prohibits us from doing so.
Other pre-built packages are not provided if they depend on said packages to be
build by our
On 1/26/21 10:12 AM, Christopher Nielsen wrote:
>> /Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> /
>> homebrew is in shambles.
>>
>> their long-touted "no-sudo" and "no PATH" advantage from installing
>> into /usr/local has been eliminated by Apple as the horrible security
>> threat it always was. They have to
> Ken Cunningham wrote:
>
> homebrew is in shambles.
>
> their long-touted "no-sudo" and "no PATH" advantage from installing into
> /usr/local has been eliminated by Apple as the horrible security threat it
> always was. They have to retool into /opt/homebrew and make 10,000 builds
> respect
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