Homebrew

[Scott Haneda]

On May 17, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>  
wrote:

> I just learned that apparently "Homebrew is [...] a perfect  
> replacement for MacPorts." I didn't know we needed replacing.
>
> http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

I think it's fine to have a competitor. There already is CPAN and  
Fink. It's good to have healthy competition.

This one though, they are immediately bashing MacPorts as if it needs  
replacing. MacPorts is pretty mature compared to my cursory glance at  
Homebrew.

I'm not sure why they felt they needed to position themselves as a  
MacPorts replacement; why not a Fink replacement?

I also do not at all like that they symblink into a local dir from  
their prefix. That seems a recipe for disaster. The way MacPorts is  
isolated was a great design decision.

I'm not seeing a list of Homebrew installer ports/packages. Do they at  
least have a working AMP stack, how is their php install and  
associated modules?

Weird direction to take in releasing an alternative. Apparently  
someone out there does not like MacPorts :)

Who are the people behind this project?

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