Publicizing MacPorts

[Zero King]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:24:51PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 at 12:45, Steven Smith wrote:
>>
>> If a comparable announcement to this was made for MacPorts, I missed it:
>>
>> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/mac-utility-homebrew-finally-gets-native-apple-silicon-and-m1-support/
>
>We never made any announcement since it basically "worked from day 1"
>(almost), and we never had any specific point in time when support for
>M1 was significantly improved. (We probably needed an upgrade of
>MacPorts base, but that happened very soon.)
>
>We should probably be publicising that MacPorts works just fine with
>M1 more aggressively from the very beginning.

Ironically, MacPorts is claimed to have "initial or beta support" for
Apple silicon on https://isapplesiliconready.com/ (top search result for
"is m1 ready" on Google), while Homebrew is "fully compatible".

>If anyone is willing to volunteer to do PR for MacPorts ...
>
>Mojca