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For me, the constant re-downloading of dependencies was a pain in the ass. I got MacPorts in order to get the apps OSX should have come with, like wget and cur
by redthrowaway 16y ago
For me, the constant re-downloading of dependencies was a pain in the ass. I got MacPorts in order to get the apps OSX should have come with, like wget and curl. In the process, it fragged Python to high hell by installing just about every version out there (often several for each package), which broke the bangpath in all my scripts. I'm aware it's probably a pretty easy fix, but a program whose use breaks other programs is a fundamentally broken and Bad one.
I still use MacPorts on occasion if I really need a package, but my dreams of using it to make the OSX terminal as functional as that of Linux is long dead.
- daniel02216 16y agoOS X does come with curl, doesn't it?
- redthrowaway 16y agoIt does indeed, my bad.
- mitchty 16y agoAnd wget as well.
- redthrowaway 16y agoNot so much: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=wget+osx http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
- mitchty 16y agoDoh, forgot that I compiled it into my home directory. My bad.
- technomancy 16y agoAt my last job they gave me an MBP when I started, so I thought I'd give it a go. The solution I was given to "this isn't working" is "blow away /opt and try again". I wasted three days trying to get a usable Ruby dev environment before wiping it for Ubuntu.