usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

[Jeremy Lavergne]

Marketing. Ease of use.

Davor Cubranic <cubranic at stat.ubc.ca> wrote:
>On Mar 12, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Art McGee <amcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>I’ve been wondering why Homebrew has such huge momentum and mindshare
>these days. In random places on the web I’ve seen people imply that
>it’s better/more reliable than Macports. (The only concrete example was
>terribly outdated, about TexLive version about four years ago.) 
>
>I’ve given Homebrew a quick try in a VM and it doesn’t seem that
>different in functionality. (Except that I do wish we had something
>like Homebrew-cask.) So, other than the coolness factor (which I guess
>comes partly from being “the new thing”, and partly from using Github
>for all development and distribution), what else is there? Try to keep
>it factual and based on your own experiences using/administering both,
>please.
>
>Davor
>
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