On 20 Feb 2019, at 18:56, James Linder wrote:
On 20 Feb 2019, at 8:00 pm, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org
wrote:
So my philosophical question is “Why MacPorts these days?”
Because running the tools it provides in a VM is a grotesque waste of
RAM and disk space and puts a wall up b
> On 20 Feb 2019, at 8:00 pm, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org wrote:
>
>> So my philosophical question is “Why MacPorts these days?”
>
> Because running the tools it provides in a VM is a grotesque waste of
> RAM and disk space and puts a wall up between tools I want to use
> occas
> On 20 Feb 2019, at 8:00 pm, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org wrote:
>
>>>
>>> So my philosophical question is “Why MacPorts these days?”.
>>
>> Same reason as always: to help you install software on your Mac. If
>> you prefer installing software in a VM running a different OS, by
On 20 Feb 2019, at 16:23, Alejandro Imass wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:48 AM Mojca Miklavec
wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 16:33, Bill Cole wrote:
The departure of MacPorts from Mac OS Forge as it was
being wound down was announced in
https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:48 AM Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 16:33, Bill Cole wrote:
> >
> > The departure of MacPorts from Mac OS Forge as it was
> > being wound down was announced in
> >
> https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2016-August/033405.html
>
> While I w
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I would have left macOS if I didn't have a package manager available,
the computer would be next-to-useless.
I'm probably not the only one here who remembers the days when you got
your software from comp.sources and figured out how to make it go :-)
I agree, the project is strong. Apple providing a server was nice, but
certainly not a necessity. GitHub is great!
Sent from my iPhone
> On Feb 20, 2019, at 7:47 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 16:33, Bill Cole wrote:
>>
>> The departure of MacPorts from Mac OS Forge as
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 16:33, Bill Cole wrote:
>
> The departure of MacPorts from Mac OS Forge as it was
> being wound down was announced in
> https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2016-August/033405.html
While I wouldn't mind if Apple continued to provide hardware building
capacity, t
On 20 Feb 2019, at 10:10, Alejandro Imass wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:13 AM S. L. Garwood via macports-users <
macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote:
First let me say I have used MacPorts since 10.6.8.
[...]
I appreciate all the work the developers have put into MacPorts but
to me
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:13 AM S. L. Garwood via macports-users <
macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote:
> First let me say I have used MacPorts since 10.6.8.
>
> [...]
> I appreciate all the work the developers have put into MacPorts but to me
> the handwriting on the wall was when Apple pul
> Am 20.02.2019 um 14:50 schrieb S. L. Garwood via macports-users
> :
>
> A big thank you to all the people who chimed in and gave me much to think
> over.
> I have used MacPorts since 10.6.8 - it is based on one of my favorite package
> managers (FreeBSD ports)
> I’ve been a long time FreeB
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:15 AM Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> I would have left macOS if I didn't have a package manager available,
> the computer would be next-to-useless.
Speaking as an ordinary end-user I agree with that; if not for macports I’d
be even more tempted to switch to FreeBSD myself.
> On 20 Feb 2019, at 8:00 pm, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org wrote:
>
> First let me say I have used MacPorts since 10.6.8.
>
> Recently, given the overall Apple direction for MacOS I stopped and asked
> myself “Why am I doing this?”.
> I started using Mint Linux on VirtualBox and
> On 20 Feb 2019, at 8:00 pm, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org wrote:
>
>
> OK
> Your inbox has 14500 mail.
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>
> So I was trying to save all your mail using thunderbird
>
> The flash in the corner was “m...@tigger.ws: junk mail” not as in mail
A big thank you to all the people who chimed in and gave me much to think over.
I have used MacPorts since 10.6.8 - it is based on one of my favorite package
managers (FreeBSD ports)
I’ve been a long time FreeBSD user, fan, and booster (since 386-bsd believe it
or not).
I think for now I’ll keep
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 14:13, S. L. Garwood via macports-users wrote:
>
> So my philosophical question is “Why MacPorts these days?”.
If your question is: "Why a package manager for Mac these days", just
a few numbers.
We don't have any good analytics data, but our competitor saw more
than 6 mill
To complement people answer, and most of all, "Why macOS"? Well, because
there is not another Unix laptop that is as efficiently implemented. For
example, take a Windows laptop, put Linux on it, and see your battery life
drop at least of 15-20%. Well, i hate it. On my macOS I have very good
battery
Hi Ryan,
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
I agree, I don't see CGContextCopyPath described in the 10.5 SDK headers.
I've encountered this in other situations. Apple documentation's notion of when
a symbol became available seems to refer to the libraries, not necessarily the
headers. Sometimes they introdu
Hi,
Bill Cole wrote:
Because running the tools it provides in a VM is a grotesque waste of
RAM and disk space and puts a wall up between tools I want to use
occasionally and the UI where I prefer to work mostly.
I second that, for me a VM is a waste and only the "last possible mean".
Except
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