> On Sep 18, 2010, at 16:39, James Hozier wrote: > >> I had no idea Ports and Fink were two different things. I'm relatively >> new to Mac products (but very familiar with Unix) so at first I thought >> that the Ports/Fink system was the same, and that both used the same >> repos/sources or whatever. However I discovered the two were different but >> Fink seems to be less active (I posted to their ML a couple weeks ago and >> nobody has responded yet). I'm very happy with MacPorts, but what exactly >> are the differences between Ports and Fink? (If possible a description in >> an unbiased POV)
Indeed, MacPorts and Fink are two completely different pieces of software, though they have the same goal: make it easy to install UNIXy software on your Mac. I used to use Fink, but when I upgraded from Panther to Tiger I found Fink wasn't ready for it and didn't work well with it. I switched to DarwinPorts, which became MacPorts, and I haven't been back to Fink since. On Sep 19, 2010, at 12:08, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > In addition to the above benefits, a lesser benefit is that you can run the > latest software on EOL'd OSs. For example, you can build the latest X11 > server for Tiger (or maybe even Panther). Well, not with MacPorts, you can't, anyway; MacPorts itself won't compile on Panther anymore. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
