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Have never used MacPorts, but based on your comment, and a few of the replies, I may give it a try. Homebrew is quite painful in many ways, particularly when ma
by lucideer 6y ago
Have never used MacPorts, but based on your comment, and a few of the replies, I may give it a try. Homebrew is quite painful in many ways, particularly when managing multiple versions of a package (MySQL & PostgreSQL especially has had a lot of issues for me).
On the other hand, what I will say in favour of Homebrew is that its popularity does make life much easier as there's so much software available on it. Even very small / niche / new projects will often have a Homebrew package.
- jimbokun 6y agoThis Homebrew MacPorts discussion is giving me a MySQL Postgres vibe. The former is more popular and easier to get started with and bigger community, but the latter is higher quality and better designed.
- zymhan 6y agoYou would probably enjoy the `port select` command in Macports to pick the version you want to launch when invoking, say, "python". Macports is also good about naming different versions, so you can have python-34, python-37, and python-29 installed together.