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It's still a thing: https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

> Took them 3 months before a "we're not interested" email was sent. No reasons, either. Yeh this is really really tough. They have an excellent RFD that explains the hiring proces…

For me it's completely unfit for purpose: * It's incompatible with some apps, e.g. Roblox, that are full-screened, and you end up in an annoying loop between the Roblox screen and …

The repository of record is CVS, but you can - like many of us do - use either the hg export ( https://anonhg.netbsd.org/pkgsrc ) or GitHub ( https://github.com/netbsd/pkgsrc ) ins…

I am the pkgin maintainer, and would be interested to hear about any issues you have building pkgin. It should build on any of the 23 platforms that pkgsrc supports, including Linu…

macOS users may want to use my binary package repository, updated every few days from pkgsrc trunk: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/

Any OS which use the Korn shell as /bin/sh, for example Solaris 10, 11, and illumos: $ /bin/sh -c "fail() { local f; }; fail" /bin/sh[1]: local: not found [No such file or director…

It also uses the "local" keyword, which is non-portable. People like to bash the autotools, but they exist for exactly this reason - they already spent decades working through all …

For me it's a relatively trivial reason: my muscle memory has been trained over the years that cmd-[1-9] switches tabs, and there's no way to configure that in Terminal.app (last t…

MySQL is a great example of it working. Hundreds of employees, the vast majority remote, regardless of where they were located. Sold for $1B. It was my first remote job and I enjoy…

I switched from building from quarterly branches to trunk a while ago, so those packages are actually updated with the very latest every few days.

> At the moment, the best I can find for OS X is Rudix. The selection of available software is pathetic compared to Homebrew and Nix, but a lot of the core stuff is there and it's …

They're all available: $ pkgin se python3 python35-3.5.1nb2 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language python34-3.4.4 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented …

Not true any longer, at least for the binary packages I produce[0]. I switched them over to trunk-based builds a while ago, which are updated every few days. [0] https://pkgsrc.joy…

Cross-compilation is sometimes an option, but not necessarily a good one. It is usually a significantly manual process (I now have to download and install an OS which is supported …

Trust is certainly one of the issues when languages migrate to requiring themselves to bootstrap. However, by far the most infuriating (and one I run into frequently in my line of …

Just to follow up on this, these are now available in the 64-bit repository: $ pkgin se nodejs nodejs-0.12.2 V8 JavaScript for clients and servers nodejs-0.10.38 V8 JavaScript for …

I'll fix that, and add nodejs-0.12 too. 0.10.36 was current at the time that pkgsrc-2015Q1 was frozen for release, but I can build them from our separate pkgsrc-joyent repository. …

The main general benefit of pkgsrc is that it's cross-platform and, having been around since 1997, now runs on 22 different operating systems. This means that rather than having to…

Not sure why someone has edited the title, the point of posting this release specifically (we release every quarter) was that the binary packages are now signed by default - an imp…

pkgsrc is our primary package manager for SmartOS, our illumos distribution. We also provide binary packages for OS X and Linux: http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ pkgsrc should still work …