DarwinPorts or Fink?

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DarwinPorts or Fink?

This is an eternal question; however the comments I've found about this date of 2008, and I guess have moved since then.

So, DarwinPorts or Fink? (or something else?)

I see that Fink does not yet have a binary installer for snow leopard... is it a dead project?

Regards, David

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Don't be confused by DarwinPorts.com. The original DarwinPorts project was renamed to MacPorts a long time ago.

Besides Fink, yet another distributor of open source packages for OS X has arisen in the mean time: Homebrew. Each of the three has its strengths depending on your preferences. None of them currently provide an up-to-date set of binary packages, so whichever you choose, you'll end having to spend time compiling. In my opinion, MacPorts is probably the most actively maintained these days and has at least unofficial support from Apple but Homebrew has been gaining in popularity for its minimalist approach.

Ned Deily 2010-08-27 22:38:33

Thanks for the answer.Is there a list of applications prepared for Homebrew? I checked the website, but I failed to see such a list.For instance, this is the list of applications prepared for fink: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.phpI only found this short list for homebrew: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/List_of_homebrew_applicationsbut I guess that it is not complete, as mysql does not appear in the list and I know that mysql is prepared for homebrew.

David Portabella 2010-08-29 21:05:19

For Homebrew packages, drill down into the github source for *formula*: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula/

Ned Deily 2010-08-29 21:28:25

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