<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><i class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Ken Cunningham wrote:<br class=""></font></i><br class="">homebrew is in shambles.<br class=""><br class="">their long-touted "no-sudo" and "no PATH" advantage from installing into /usr/local has been eliminated by Apple as the horrible security threat it always was. They have to retool into /opt/homebrew and make 10,000 builds respect the build args now.<br class=""><br class="">They stripped out all their universal handling code a few years ago, can't put it back, and so can't do the critical universal builds any more. They tell everyone universal is wasteful, lipo things manually, and run the x86_64 homebrew on Apple Silicon.<br class=""><br class="">So MacPorts, which works great from 10.4 PPC to 11.x arm64, is the place to be.</blockquote><br class=""><div class="">Personnally, I’ve never actually tried HomeBrew, as I didn’t want anything installed into core OS areas. And after choosing MacPorts years ago - 10+ at this point? - I’ve always been very happy with the experience. Enough so that I’m finally giving back, as a contributor!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One advantage that HomeBrew does have, though, is cachet: There are so many times when articles - or even organizations, such as Google - simply recommend using HomeBrew… with no mention of MacPorts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, my feeling is that we need to up our public relations game. Do we have an active social media presence, for example? (Twitter in particular?)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of note, while I’m not an expert in social media relations, I’d happily volunteer to help with it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thoughts?</div></body></html>