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What do you mean by “standard”? I like MacPorts, but most macOS using developers I’ve conversed with over the past 12+ years never heard of it, while all of th

What do you mean by “standard”? I like MacPorts, but most macOS using developers I’ve conversed with over the past 12+ years never heard of it, while all of them used Homebrew. Maybe it depends on what developer circles one inhabits.

mikrl 2y ago
I have only ever used macports, but my first and only MacBook was salvaged from bigcorp IT, and is a 2009 model so homebrew is too new for it. I’ve dabbled in BSD before and I can definitely see the correspondence between Macports and freeBSD ports. I assume homebrew tries to be more similar to apt or yum.
- michaelsbradley 2y ago
  Yes, one of several nice things about MacPorts is the continued support for older macs, macOS/OSX versions.
  - wpm 2y ago
    MacPorts is a godsend on older Macs. Takes forever to compile stuff on a G3 though :)
    - mikrl 2y ago
      How did people compile emacs on 2 cores in the old days? :O
marxisttemp 2y ago
Just a play on “ed is the standard text editor”. But, by all measures, MacPorts is more standard than Homebrew. Such as being implemented by an Apple employee who also created the official (source-based) package manager for the most popular BSD. Homebrew definitely has a lot more market share though, much to my chagrin. The only other MacPorts users I’ve met in person are people I convinced to switch.