On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 14:13, S. L. Garwood via macports-users wrote: > > So my philosophical question is “Why MacPorts these days?”.
If your question is: "Why a package manager for Mac these days", just a few numbers. We don't have any good analytics data, but our competitor saw more than 6 million installs (not counting those who opted out) of the most popular package in the last year. This at least tells you that there is interest in people using a native package manager. I know that our traffic runs in many terrabytes, but I forgot even the sample numbers. If you don't care about running your software natively, it's better to switch to Linux and forget about the expensive hardware. I would have left macOS if I didn't have a package manager available, the computer would be next-to-useless. Even if the software is not packaged (yet), it is orders of magnitude easier to build it for Mac than without the package manager. Mojca Mojca
