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Homebrew - a package manager for OSX to install all those incredibly useful applications you've been using for the past 10 years. http://mxcl.github.com/homebr
by wriq 14y ago
Homebrew - a package manager for OSX to install all those incredibly useful applications you've been using for the past 10 years.
http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
- Turing_Machine 14y agoAbsolutely. You'll probably run across a lot of web sites recommending older package managers like MacPorts and Fink, just because they've been around for a long time. YMMV, but I (and many others) find Homebrew superior in every respect.
- ciniglio 14y agoI thought the main difference wasn't age, but that macports installs it's own version of binaries that are already on the system (e.g. python or ruby). This means that if apple changes the binary in the OS, you don't risk breaking the dependency tree. If there's a way to do this in homebrew, please let me know! I'd like to switch over, and this is the one thing keeping me with macports.
- taligent 14y agoBefore you do this. Make sure to install XCode from the App Store and then goto XCode->Preferences->Downloads and install the "Command Line Tools".
- tominated 14y agoYou can install the command line tools without XCode if you download them from the Apple Developer site.
- maximveksler 14y agoI did it, but I can't find anywhere what tools are being installed. Is this documented somewhere or alternatively how can I inspect the downloaded archive to learn about its content?
- gjulianm 14y agoI installed MacPorts for these. What is really the difference between them?