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When I used a Mac a few years ago, none of the ports systems all had the latest versions of packages I needed Things change. Hackers have been migrating to the
by mechanical_fish 18y ago
When I used a Mac a few years ago, none of the ports systems all had the latest versions of packages I needed
Things change. Hackers have been migrating to the Mac en masse. So MacPorts has gotten better and better.
Two or three years ago I went through the pain of installing Ruby/Rails, MySQL, Apache, and git from source -- that was the popular choice at the time, because MacPorts was just not up to date. But MacPorts now has current versions of ruby, mysql, git, and apache, so it's time to switch back.
Yeah, it's probably not as good as apt-get. On the other hand, on the Mac I have Mac software, which more than makes up for it. And if I'm ever nostalgic for apt-get a Linux virtual machine is not far away.