usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

[Davor Cubranic]

This reminds me of the classic “Worse is Better” essay on Lisp vs C (and MIT vs Bell Labs) approach to software systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better):

There is a number of comparison points in the essay, but this is the most relevant one:

- C: It is slightly better to be simple than correct
- Lisp: Incorrectness is simply not allowed

Davor

On Mar 18, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:

> homebrew will or will appear to get a user to their desired state of “I just need X installed” faster than MacPorts.
> 
> Their users simply don’t care about what MacPorts does: it isn’t that homebrew has a feature, it’s that homebrew won’t seem to get in the way.
> 
> On Mar 18, 2014, at 13:36, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> 
>>> - homebrew doesn't try as hard as MacPorts to make builds reproducible. If you install vim, it'll use the first python available. When that's system python it uses that, if it's homebrew python it'll use that (and if its MacPorts python, well you get the idea)
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure they consider this a strength. "I already have Python!
>> Why is MacPorts trying to install a new version!?"
> 
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