usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

[Eric Gallager]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > No! Homebrew's search "functionality" is my biggest problem with it. The
> > columns you mentioned make it hard to read because it makes it harder to
> > see how they are sorted. The alphabetization seems to be in order by
> column
> > at first, but then at some random row the alphabetical order will switch
> > over to the next column over, instead of continuing down that same
> column,
> > with no marker to show where it happened, so you really have to be paying
> > attention to find where something is in a screen of search output from
> > Homebrew.
>
> Nobody said we'd have to write a weird implementation.
>
> > Also I find it useful that MacPorts prints the port descriptions
> > when doing `port search`
>
> And I'm all for keeping that if there are less than, say 10 search
> results. When there are more than 10 results, we could print the names only
> along with instructions on how to get full results, should a user really
> want to read through all the descriptions (how often do you open the second
> page on Google again?). I also think the output could be improved to waste
> less space and use color. For more than 10 results, I think
>   port -q search git | while read a; read b; read c; do printf "%-28s
> %-28s %-28s\n" "$a" "$b" "$c"; done | grep -iE --color '^|git'
> is a pretty good shot at what I'd like to see (optimized to 80 columns
> terminal and this specific query). For less than 10 results, the following
> looks nice to my eyes:
>
> $> port search git
> port        version          description
> ----        -------          -----------
> babl-devel  0.1.11-20140305  Babl is a library for dynamically handling
> pixel
>                              formats and managing conversions between them.
>                              This is the development version based on a
> recent
>                              snapshot of upstream <red>git</red> master.
> bitcoin     0.8.6            client user interface for a peer-to-peer
>                              di<red>git</red>al currency (yes, we also
> print
>                              useless matches like these)
> etc.
>
>
Ah, so more like Fink's search results (well they use the term `apropos`
but it is still a search) then? I do like Fink's search results, they even
have a column with a simple symbol showing the package's installation
status...
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