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

[↪︎nudge]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, at 09:45, db wrote:
> 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.
Yep, perhaps I wasn't expressing myself clearly enough, but that is
exactly the point I was trying to make, thanks.
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