x86_64 10.5/i386 fink 10.6 and the options for MacPorts

Emmanuel Hainry milosh at macports.org
Mon Sep 14 06:44:01 PDT 2009


Citando 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.
> 

There is also the "Available ports" page that gives links to all the
portfiles: http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=all

Emmanuel


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