and sometimes because of the tremendous support by people like jeremy and many others, macports can build things that don’t exist out there in the world — like a current version of OpenSCAD or Widelands that runs on 10.6, for example.
or versions of software you can customize to your liking, using the basic macports port file as a template. Ken > On Sep 24, 2016, at 6:22 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Al Varnell <alvarn...@mac.com > <mailto:alvarn...@mac.com>> wrote: > Sorry for my ignorance here, but why do we need MacPorts to maintain a port > when there is are perfectly good installers available on GitHub > <https://osxfuse.github.io <https://osxfuse.github.io/> > including a > developer release of version 3.5.1 posted close to a week ago? > > The same can be said for a fair chunk of the software in MacPorts. Some of us > prefer not to have to chase down and (possibly build and) install every > single piece of software ourselves. That's the *point* of MacPorts. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates > allber...@gmail.com <mailto:allber...@gmail.com> > ballb...@sinenomine.net <mailto:ballb...@sinenomine.net> > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net > <http://sinenomine.net/>_______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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