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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by astrange on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:48PM (#30119449)
There were other better macOS package managers before it; macports was sort of even Apple sponsored.

Everyone switched to brew even though it was the most poorly designed because it came from the Rails hype era where everyone wanted all their tools to be written in Ruby and didn’t care about anything else.

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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by riffraff on Saturday January 29, 2022 @06:02AM (#30125436)
I used and still use macports, but there were valid reasons to switch to homebrew: macports did not have precompiled packages, did not use system libraries, and machines were not as powerful as they are now.

This meant if you wanted to install, say, ImageMagick, you would spend one day compiling stuff.

Also contributing a brew recipe was (and probably still is) easier than contributing to macports, and brew casks are pretty convenient.

I deeply dislike some of the choices of homebrew, but I can understand why it was popular, and it wasn't just because of the ruby hype.

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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by stephenr on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:50PM (#30123885)
Yeah no kidding.
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