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MacPorts has or had semi-official status. It was hosted by macOS Forge, which was an official Apple site that included other projects such as XQuartz. I'm uncle

MacPorts has or had semi-official status. It was hosted by macOS Forge, which was an official Apple site that included other projects such as XQuartz. I'm unclear on the current status.

AceJohnny2 7y ago
MacOS Forge has been deprecated for years (2016?), all its hosted projects have moved off. I don't think Apple has done anything for MacPorts since then, so I wouldn't consider it a current endorsement.
selectodude 7y ago
Its a shame MacPorts kind of died on the vine. It just seems so much cleaner and less hacky than Homebrew.
- AceJohnny2 7y ago
  It's not dead! [1] I use it daily, and it's working just fine. For example, check out the (centralized) list [2] of Ports files that define the packages. You can see it's pretty lively But your perception that it's dead is certainly symptomatic of an issue for the project. [1] yes yes Monty Python [2] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports https://github.com/macports/macports-ports
- hnarayanan 7y ago
  It’s not dead. I too have used it nearly daily for over 15 years.
- kickingvegas 7y ago
  Nope. MacPorts not dead. Use it everyday.
briandear 7y ago
That isn’t semi-official. I know of not one ruby dev at Apple that uses MacPorts. That’s not to say there isn’t one, but they are rare.
- hollerith 7y ago
  _Ruby_ devs are going to be attracted to Homebrew because it (and the "recipe" for building every Homebrew package) is written in Ruby. The test of MacPorts is how many non-Ruby devs use it.
- rgovostes 7y ago
  Whether or not anyone uses it, it is still linked from https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ and was part of Apple's open source strategy several years ago. Regarding Ruby, Apple backed the MacRuby implementation for a while but that also petered out.
saagarjha 7y ago
MacPorts was started by Apple engineers as part of OpenDarwin and then spun off into a community project like the rest of the projects on macOS Forge, and just like the other projects it is still worked on in part by Apple engineers.

MacPorts has or had semi-official status. It was hosted by macOS Forge, which was an official Apple site that included other projects such as XQuartz. I'm unclear on the current status.

AceJohnny2 7y ago

MacOS Forge has been deprecated for years (2016?), all its hosted projects have moved off. I don't think Apple has done anything for MacPorts since then, so I wouldn't consider it a current endorsement.

selectodude 7y ago

Its a shame MacPorts kind of died on the vine. It just seems so much cleaner and less hacky than Homebrew.

AceJohnny2 7y ago
It's not dead! [1] I use it daily, and it's working just fine. For example, check out the (centralized) list [2] of Ports files that define the packages. You can see it's pretty lively But your perception that it's dead is certainly symptomatic of an issue for the project. [1] yes yes Monty Python [2] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports https://github.com/macports/macports-ports
hnarayanan 7y ago
It’s not dead. I too have used it nearly daily for over 15 years.
kickingvegas 7y ago
Nope. MacPorts not dead. Use it everyday.

briandear 7y ago

That isn’t semi-official. I know of not one ruby dev at Apple that uses MacPorts. That’s not to say there isn’t one, but they are rare.

hollerith 7y ago
_Ruby_ devs are going to be attracted to Homebrew because it (and the "recipe" for building every Homebrew package) is written in Ruby. The test of MacPorts is how many non-Ruby devs use it.
rgovostes 7y ago
Whether or not anyone uses it, it is still linked from https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ and was part of Apple's open source strategy several years ago. Regarding Ruby, Apple backed the MacRuby implementation for a while but that also petered out.

saagarjha 7y ago

MacPorts was started by Apple engineers as part of OpenDarwin and then spun off into a community project like the rest of the projects on macOS Forge, and just like the other projects it is still worked on in part by Apple engineers.