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Time to move to MacPorts.
by joeman1000 3y ago
Time to move to MacPorts.
- esafak 3y agoDon't move today, because the Sonoma release is not out yet. https://www.macports.org/install.php https://www.macports.org/install.php
- KerrAvon 3y agoI remember this being a huge issue with MacPorts. It would never keep up with the damn releases, so if you were working on a beta OS, you were hosed until they caught up.
- halostatue 3y agoIt is, but it is mostly an issue with not having enough resources for the prebuilt images. They haven’t released a package installer for Sonoma yet, but AIUI the minimal required fixes have been in the MacPorts core for several weeks. There are likely to be more issues related to Apple's switch to the `prime` linker. (I’m a port contributor and am on macports-users where this issue has come up twice. There is what I think is excessive concern about the macOS beta NDA preventing the creation of a package installer until after GA when it no longer applies. A bigger problem is the availability of sufficient build hardware as they have a smallish Mac mini multi-booting into 11, 12, and 13.)
- saagarjha 3y agoI've been using MacPorts on beta releases for the last several years, and it does a pretty decent job. I wouldn't say it's significantly behind the competition.
- wwalexander 3y agoYou can just build the latest tarball from source with `./configure && make && make install` [1]. I did so just now without any issues. (You’ll need to install Xcode and the Developer Tools first if you don’t have them already.) [1] https://www.macports.org/install.php#source https://www.macports.org/install.php#source
- wwalexander 3y agoSorry, that should be ./configure && make && sudo make install
- joeman1000 3y agoLooks like it’s out now.