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MacPorts has its own way of dealing with dev tools and framework versioning. E.g. you can have multiple versions of complex products like PHP or MySQL at once. You can even have a GCC package for a specific target arch as a separate ports package. Does Homebrew allow these things?
I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache. I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.
The fact that AAPL doesn't support brew's maintenance and development is a great reason to not buy more macs.
I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache. I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.
The fact that AAPL doesn't support brew's maintenance and development is a great reason to not buy more macs.
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I don't think homebrew has more user than say apt or pacman. Maybe there are a bit more people running osx than linux, but much of them are not devs or "power users" and never run homebrew.
Apt I can agree, it's still the gold standard of package manager and powers the most popular distributions out there in bajillion cloud instances. Pacman, erm what? Arc is a niche of a niche. I'd bet Alpine's package manager sees more action than that - let alone yum/rpm.
I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache. I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.
Was it him who was turned down by Apple and Google, after he built homebrew...?
[1]: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache. I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.
This intrepid band of volunteers are adding huge value to one of the largest corporations on earth. I appreciate the DIY effort of anyone who volunteers, though I see the donate tab on their website and sigh a little.
Been a MacPorts user for years and I know nothing about Homebrew. To those who tried both: should a software engineer switch to Homebrew? MacPorts has its own way of dealing with dev tools and framework versioning. E.g. you can have multiple versions of complex products like PHP or MySQL at once. You can even have a GCC package for a specific target arch as a separate ports package. Does Homebrew allow these things?
I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache. I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.
Was it him who was turned down by Apple and Google, after he built homebrew...?
I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache. I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.
Windows is where the users are, and apt-get works just as well on WSL2 as natively.
MacPorts has a "patch it to work with macOS" mentality that seemed much more needed in the early 00's when PowerPC/big-endian and other Mac or BSD specific differences were more common, whereas Homebrew tends to want everything to come unpatched from upstream, which does seem a bit cleaner.
I think I'm getting thrown off by stories like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26017852 and horror stories about upgrades or migrations - I've been doing a 'port list requested > file', copying that file around, then 'port install `cat file`' to get the same setup on a new machine for quite a while.