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 communi

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 Pyth

Re: macports challenges (not rot)

2018-12-03 Thread Jonathan Stickel
As soon as I sent it, I regretted using the word "rot". I should have used "challenges" or such. Sorry for that. Maybe it is just my experience with some tickets and PRs that I am involved with, and not a problem with Macports generally. Nonetheless, maybe some discussion about how best to mov