On Dec 5, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Adam Grant wrote: > I was wondering what the Mac people here use to install software on > their Macs. MacPorts? Darwin? I know Ubuntu pretty much has > aptitude, and Redhat has yum, but I wasn't sure what the "preferred" > way is for Macs. I saw that Porticus wraps MacPorts in a GUI, but > what do you all use?
From what I see traversing the blogoshpere, MacPorts is referenced way, way more often than anything else. The only other one I have come across is Fink, but I haven't heard of anyone using that recently (not that that means much). I'm a fairly GUI oriented guy, but using MacPorts is no harder than using gems from the command line. So even I don't see a need to have a GUI for it. I'm not a real ports fan just because I have an irrational distaste for a completely redundant structure in the OS duplicating a bunch of functionality that already exists. I understand the attractive flip side to that, it just doesn't tickle my "that's cool" bone. So, for the most part, I find binaries or build from source whenever I can (and far from being source code geek, and I've still managed to get along well enough--e.g. installing Ruby 1.9). I could imagine there's some things out there where that would be a real pain -- nagios for example. Anyway, my 2ยข. -- gw -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
