Dear Ryan, Alexey and all, I enjoyed reading Ryan’s speech!
> Fink was written in 2000 shortly after the release of Mac OS X Public Beta. > MacPorts was started in 2002. Why didn't its creators instead contribute to > Fink? I don't know; I wasn't part of the project back then. I used to contribute to Fink, but I liked the philosophy of MacPorts. I am grateful to the support from the friendly MacPorts team in maintaining the ports that I contribute to. > We have a bit of a friendly rivalry, and we share solutions as the need > arises. I sometimes look for solution in Fink, Howebrew and other package managers on different platforms. I try to make MacPorts competitive in Science (Earth Science in particular) and I do have a rivalry. I do have an experience in cooperating with Homebrew. A while ago I created a port call dotwrp to fix the bugs in vecLib framework when used with Fortran. mcg1969 who contributes to Homebrew greatly extended dotwrp and created vecLibFort. When I became aware of it, I decided to make dotwrp obsolete and adopt vecLibFort into MacPorts. Of course it requires manual interpretation from Ruby to Tcl. > But the Tcl language was chosen for reasons which may still be valid, and we > have a growing collection of currently over 10,000 Portfiles. I believe that Tcl's unique syntax keeps Portfile concise. The old languages like Fortran and Tcl survive because they have their raison d’être! Takeshi ----- Takeshi Enomoto take...@macports.org _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
