Publicizing MacPorts

[Steven Smith]


> 
> Ironically, MacPorts is claimed to have "initial or beta support" for
> Apple silicon on https://isapplesiliconready.com/

Another reason major news like M1 support must be announced.

As a volunteer, I could quickly post a correction, but in doing so this website reasonably asks for a reference link, for which there is none because MacPorts has made no such announcement.

If MacPorts doesn’t tell its story, someone else will.

> On Apr 22, 2021, at 10:09, Zero King <l2dy at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 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