As usual this project too is a mess because everyone has a different idea of what it is,has been and will be.
Il gio 24 mar 2022, 02:55 Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> ha scritto: > On Mar 23, 2022, at 08:48, Michele Venturi wrote: > > > If MacPorts is not a package manager we need one, > > I'd say HomeBrew could be the right tool for the job. > > I'm not sure what these remarks are in regards to, but MacPorts was > started in 2002 a ports collection [1] based conceptually on FreeBSD Ports, > meaning that it builds things from source on the user's system using a > recipe. In 2011 MacPorts 2.0.0 was released which included the capability > to download precompiled archives from servers, thus saving the user the > need to compile it themselves, while still retaining the ability for them > to do so should they wish to or need to. Shortly thereafter we began > producing such archives for Mac OS X 10.6 on our servers, and we added > archives for subsequent OS versions as they were released over the years. > In that capability, MacPorts is like a package manager [2]. In my view it > is a combination of both. > > Homebrew is a MacPorts competitor which came onto the scene in 2009. We > welcome this friendly competition. Homebrew developers sometimes take > patches or ideas from MacPorts; we sometimes take patches from them (and > from anywhere else we can find them of course). > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ports_collection > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager > >