This reminds me of the classic “Worse is Better” essay on Lisp vs C (and MIT vs Bell Labs) approach to software systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better):
There is a number of comparison points in the essay, but this is the most relevant one: - C: It is slightly better to be simple than correct - Lisp: Incorrectness is simply not allowed Davor On Mar 18, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Jeremy Lavergne <[email protected]> wrote: > homebrew will or will appear to get a user to their desired state of “I just > need X installed” faster than MacPorts. > > Their users simply don’t care about what MacPorts does: it isn’t that > homebrew has a feature, it’s that homebrew won’t seem to get in the way. > > On Mar 18, 2014, at 13:36, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> - homebrew doesn't try as hard as MacPorts to make builds reproducible. If >>> you install vim, it'll use the first python available. When that's system >>> python it uses that, if it's homebrew python it'll use that (and if its >>> MacPorts python, well you get the idea) >> >> I'm pretty sure they consider this a strength. "I already have Python! >> Why is MacPorts trying to install a new version!?" > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
