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I switched to Brew because I got tired of recompiling from source for every update with MacPorts. As an end-user I don't see the benefit of repeating the same t
by web007 9y ago
I switched to Brew because I got tired of recompiling from source for every update with MacPorts. As an end-user I don't see the benefit of repeating the same thing N times for N clients versus doing it once, centrally.
Every time "boost" updates, you're stuck recompiling half your ports for the next 20 minutes to use the new library. With Brew, you wait a minute for the new packages to download, and you're done.
- raimue 9y agoMacPorts has been providing binary packages since 2.0, which was released in 2011. Many pre-compiled binaries are even available for old macOS versions back to 10.6. There are only a few ports where the license does not allow binary distribution.