Your "must recompile everything" complaint against MacPorts is what, years ago, made me switch to Homebrew. Both seem to have a lot of packages, though not everything is duplicated I'm sure. Oddly, a "flip" command I used for a long time for switching files between LF and CRLF conventions, is not available in Brew but is in MacPorts. Besides that though, I don't remember running into any missing packages in Brew that I need. If your MacOS is reasonably up to date, Brew packages tend to show up fast and pre-built. On very old MacOS versions, things do get recompiled often in Brew, and with a strong Apple warning against relying on things working in that situation. But I've seen two Macs running Monterey or older where Brew packages continue to remain updated and functional.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 04:08:28PM +0000, 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries wrote: There were quite a few changes from Ventura to Sequoia regarding VoiceOver, specially the way it handles TTS parameters and speech rate. So immediately after upgrading my speech slowed to an unbearable crawl with Eloquence, and I had to fiddle with it to get it right. Then for the command line apps, yes they were backed up, but unfortunately the MacPorts installation I used was tied to the Ventura installation, so I had to migrate all packages to Sequoia, which was very painful because it initially bombed due to a failed Xcode command line tools upgrade not removing some old header files properly. Once I cleared them away, I was able to slowly and painfully rebuild (literally, recompile because the MacPorts build bots aren't online for ARM64 Sequoia yet). During this time server services including my network DHCP were down. This not being acceptable, I restored from backup—but by now it was too late to get the latest working build from my backup, so I had to go back farther, but at least it now worked. Eventually I was able to complete the migration in one shot without any failures and everything now works. I do love MacPorts but wish it didn't make upgrades quite so painful. The binaries almost always work just fine, so forcing a rebuild merely makes it more fragile, when it's much more important to upgrade gradually when it's possible. Anyway, it's fine now, but it was very unpleasant until I figured out the root cause, and it's all Apple's fault, of course. -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org "If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry." {African} -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/20250212164709.dsqhptqa3h4irdbk%40dlee.org.
