usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

[Mark Anderson]

Yeah, I think tcl is one of the things that confounds people the most. Not
really learned that much anymore. I learned it long ago for CAD tools from
IBM.

But really, both Homebrew and Macports are domain specific languages from
the port writers perspective. You've got to learn it anyway. People in my
CS department lab would go to Homebrew first and then come ask me how to
install MacPorts since we have much better package selection.

For instance: "If I type brew search tex, it recommends installing MacTex
instead of a from-source install." LAME.

Mark

--Mark
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> On Mar 18, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 18, 2014, at 12:54, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> >> GitHub plus not having to learn/use tcl seem to be the major features
> that pull people/create interest from what I've seen (but I haven't looked
> in on it in a while).
> >
> > ...right, instead of you have to learn/use ruby. Six of one...
>
> 'ruby' has been pretty hot for a while and 'tcl' (and perl, and php) is
> considered lame.
>
> (note that I'm not saying I personally agree with that assessment).
>
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