usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

[Davor Cubranic]

On Mar 18, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Landon Fuller <landonf at macports.org> wrote:

> They seemed to acquire a lot of traction on the basis of marketing; specifically:
> 	- Truthiness (an assortment of “advantages” that turned out not to be, claims that ignored technical accuracy and nuance, and claims quite simply rooted in ignorance), and
> 	- Outright negative advertising (“MacPorts driving you to drink?”)
> 
> It’s a new brand of open-source that I don’t really recognize and can’t say I like; it detracts from the community’s ability to collaborate productivity, and undermines the objective, rational honesty that should be at the core of any engineering endeavour.

I recently read Homebrew described as having a “brogrammer odour”, and it certainly had the kind of swagger that I haven’t seen since the early days of Rails. I do think it’s toned down nowadays (homepage’s title notwithstanding), and the actual project on Github is quite down-to-business.

Davor
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