telling devs about macports installation alternative - was Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

[db]

On 18 Mar 2018, at 23:28, ↪︎nudge <nudgemac at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, at 23:08, db wrote:
>> Good to know. Unfortunately, although gitless is already in MP, the developer doesn't mention it, but alas, HB (https://github.com/sdg-mit/gitless#installing-via-homebrew-macos-only).
> Unless I'm mistaken that text was added by a third party via a github pull request in November 2016 and anyone wishing to add MP can do likewise.

The point is, a port maintainer or submitter can send a PR or contact a dev to indicate that there's an alternative installation via macports, if he's so inclined to.