<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Rainer Müller wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Somehow the Homebrew community managed to get their ubiquitous marketing</span><br><span>on almost every software project website. Compare this with the MacPorts</span><br><span>website, which has not seen any redesign in more than 10 years...</span><br><span></span><br><span>Although a good package management system should not need to advertise</span><br><span>itself, as every software would be available without users being told</span><br><span>where to look – the package manager should be their first choice.</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But you need to know about this package manager first then. And be convinced into installing and using it. I found out about the existence of package managers on Mac (I guess it was Fink for me at the time) through installation instructions for some tool I wanted to install.</div><div><br></div><div>When I started to maintain some packages for MacPorts I also made an effort to do pull requests for the install docs to add instructions for installing via MacPorts (for instance [0]). I think this is very important PR for a package manager, apart from its own website.</div><div><br></div><div>For instance, yesterday I wanted to try out Hugo. It’s available in MacPorts, but the Hugo site only mentions Homebrew, binary download and building from source as installation options [1]. I think it might pay off if maintainers would pay more attention to this.</div><div><br></div><div>Nils.</div><div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#getting-started-macports-cli-installation">https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#getting-started-macports-cli-installation</a></div><div>[1] <a href="https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing#pick-your-method">https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing#pick-your-method</a></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div></blockquote></body></html>