Friendly talk

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Tue Sep 3 07:19:16 PDT 2013


On 09/03/2013 02:23 AM, Guido Soranzio wrote:
> On Aug 29,David Strubbe-2 wrote:
>
>> What the advantages and disadvantages does Homebrew have with respect to MacPorts?
>
>
> If you are very passionate about Cocoa and dynamic languages, I think you
> can’t ignore Ruby and GitHub.
>
> There’s a very vibrant community growing around the CocoaPods, a new
> package manager written in Ruby which allows to integrate hundreds of
> open source libraries and components in you Xcode projects.
>
> Forking and sharing you personal work is very easy in Homebrew and
> CocoaPods. You can also “tap” directly other personal repositories
> before their inclusion in the official trees.

Moving our source code from svn to github would definitely be a win in 
getting people to contribute and making it easier for us as developers 
to merge their commits into the project.

Blair



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