x86_64 10.5/i386 fink 10.6 and the options for MacPorts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 14, 2009, at 08:01, Jack Howarth wrote:

> Coming from working with fink for all these years, the first thing
> that struck me was how painful it is in MacPorts to visually
> scan through the various Portfiles. In fink, if you are looking
> for coding examples of packaging, you could go to one of the
> categories and quickly look through the various .info files for
> examples of the packaging you might want to implement. In MacPorts,
> because of the directory structure that nests the Portfile this
> is much more painful to do. Is there a way on the web site to
> quickly get to each Portfile without searching through tickets
> or such?

The only place on the web site to view the portfiles is in the Trac  
repository browser, so that's much more painful than looking through  
the files on disk, which I don't mind so much. The directory structure  
need not be a hindrance. Usually when looking for coding examples, I  
cd into the dports directory and do a grep on */*/Portfile.