Comment by nsagent
2 years ago
Early adopters can upgrade MacPorts before it officially supports the latest OS by building from source if they have the patience and are willing to debug any broken ports.
2 years ago
Early adopters can upgrade MacPorts before it officially supports the latest OS by building from source if they have the patience and are willing to debug any broken ports.
Isn't that the point of using a package manager to avoid the compiling from source and manually handling the dependency tree? Seems the better advice would be to wait for MacPorts is ready before upgrading if the software from it is that critical
No? Ports (and thus MacPorts) is source based. For FreeBSD, pkg provides binaries for ports, but is separate.
>Isn't that the point of using a package manager to avoid the compiling from source and manually handling the dependency tree?
The point of using a package manager is to avoid "manually handling the dependency tree". Whether you build from source or not is orthogonal.
Eh, the "package" in package manager kind of implies ready to use packages, not a bunch of code to be compiled if you have the environment for it.
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