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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by lucideer on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:09AM (#26036453)
Have never used MacPorts, but based on your comment, and a few of the replies, I may give it a try. Homebrew is quite painful in many ways, particularly when managing multiple versions of a package (MySQL & PostgreSQL especially has had a lot of issues for me).

On the other hand, what I will say in favour of Homebrew is that its popularity does make life much easier as there's so much software available on it. Even very small / niche / new projects will often have a Homebrew package.

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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by jimbokun on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:14AM (#26037160)
This Homebrew MacPorts discussion is giving me a MySQL Postgres vibe.

The former is more popular and easier to get started with and bigger community, but the latter is higher quality and better designed.

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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by zymhan on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:29PM (#26038779)
You would probably enjoy the `port select` command in Macports to pick the version you want to launch when invoking, say, "python".

Macports is also good about naming different versions, so you can have python-34, python-37, and python-29 installed together.

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