[cal2]

I find it very mildly ironic that the author is comparing these "ancient" versions to MacPorts. Am I naïve, or do the overwhelming majority of OS X developers use Homebrew nowadays? I've always thought Homebrew to be much more robust than MacPorts. However, I've never actually used MacPorts heavily (and probably never will).

[msluyter]

There is a tool we use at work (rpmbuild, I believe) that's not available via homebrew and only through macports. It's a nightmare, because if you install macports, it interferes with brew (or at least, brew will complain a lot). I've taken to running a VM in lieu of macports.

[weaksauce]

Why not just make your own formula?

The format is really simple and powerful.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

More complex example:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/6a72fa26aa49ee5c2b...

Edit:

If that's the only reason you can't use homebrew just, you can just tap another cask with it in there(or whatever they are calling that process).

https://github.com/avalanche123/homebrew-rpmbuild

[cal2]

Hah, that sounds really, really painful. Wouldn't you take to finding a way to compiling it yourself or committing a Formula for it instead of installing MacPorts? But if a VM works, don't fix what isn't broken, I guess. (Biochemistry is my day job, so forgive me if I'm missing an obvious detail of full-time development).

[D4AHNGM]

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...

[GuiA]

Most developers I know who use OSX use brew; fink used to be the big thing, then macports. I know for some certain packages, macports is still preferred.

[mbreese]

I don't use any of the extra package managers for OSX. I'd rather let Apple manage the tools available in OSX. If I need to do work where I find the command-line tools on OSX lacking, I'll end up working on a remote server or use a local Linux VM.

I try to not muck around with the base installs too much - it makes it too difficult to migrate between machines.

[D4AHNGM]

Disclaimer: I heavily contribute to Homebrew.

Homebrew actually merged in 4 unique bash patches in 6 days after Shellshock broke as well, and forced all users to recompile to ensure that hole was closed on our end. The author of this article would have probably been best checking both MacPorts and Homebrew, and potentially Fink as well.

[shurcooL]

Every developer I know in SF uses Homebrew, never seen anyone use MacPorts.

[dilap]

I used MacPorts way back in the day; Homebrew is about a gazillion times better.

[anoother]

In what way(s)?