Marketing. Ease of use. Davor Cubranic <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mar 12, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Art McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The problem is that the presentation of the case for supporting >MacPorts was confusing and unconvincing, so usage statistics are not >going to help in that matter. > >I’ve been wondering why Homebrew has such huge momentum and mindshare >these days. In random places on the web I’ve seen people imply that >it’s better/more reliable than Macports. (The only concrete example was >terribly outdated, about TexLive version about four years ago.) > >I’ve given Homebrew a quick try in a VM and it doesn’t seem that >different in functionality. (Except that I do wish we had something >like Homebrew-cask.) So, other than the coolness factor (which I guess >comes partly from being “the new thing”, and partly from using Github >for all development and distribution), what else is there? Try to keep >it factual and based on your own experiences using/administering both, >please. > >Davor > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >macports-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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