usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

[Terry Barnum]

On Mar 12, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Art McGee <amcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Terry Barnum <terry at dop.com> wrote:
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> The freeswitch devs are updating the Mac section of their wiki and are claiming that homebrew is more widely supported between platforms. They are reluctant to add information on using macports for freeswitch dependencies because a) they don't want to support what they don't know, and b) (they imply) they don't receive requests for freeswitch + macports.
> 
> I guess I'm just looking to satisfy my own curiosity and maybe gain some info to counter with.
> 
> Judging by this thread:
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> http://lists.freeswitch.org/pipermail/freeswitch-users/2014-March/103451.html
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> The problem is that the presentation of the case for supporting MacPorts was confusing and unconvincing, so usage statistics are not going to help in that matter.

Hi Art. Thanks for your comments. While I agree the process may seem confusing, if you look at their standard build instructions you'll see that the bulk of the process I described is essentially identical. The only differences are installing dependencies via macports versus homebrew or manually, and passing CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to configure. The line about modifying configure.in ended up being unnecessary.

> You have to give a clear and reasonable explanation as to why they should bother, when they already have a method that works.

I agree, this is what prompted my question about usage.

> Truthfully, the better option is for you and the other MacPorts users in that community to take on the task of creating a port for Freeswitch, so that future installs and updates will be easy and seamless.

I agree this would be the best solution but the effort to convert their build process to a port is beyond me. They include many additional source packages in their source so I assume it would require time and effort to coordinate with the devs for version control of these. My hope is/was as a starting point to use macports for the handful of external dependencies, showing them that it could be an easy and viable method for Mac users to build freeswitch. Once they saw that there were few macports support issues they then might be open to a freeswitch port.

Thanks,
-Terry

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