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![]() Homebrew and macports both solve the same problem - that is the installation of common libraries and utilities that are not bundled with osx. ![]() Rubists like to rewrite everything in Ruby, because the only thing they are at ease is Ruby itself. All the relative extensions are part of the group and they will be activated within the chosen group: php55 or php56. If you have both PHP55 and PHP56 installed (with many different extensions), you can swap between them with just one command. Python none python24 python25-apple python26-apple python27 python27-apple none Postgresql postgresql94 postgresql93 postgresql94 none If you are a PHP developer you can install the last version of Apache (Mac OS X uses 2.2), PHP and all the extensions you need, then upgrade all with one command. MacPorts is really stable, in 8 years I never had a problem with it, and my entire Unix ecosystem relay on it. To install Ruby on Mac OS X you might need MacPorts, so just go with MacPorts and you'll be happy. MacPorts is a native application: C + TCL. With brew you'll find yourself trapped soon because the formula you need doesn't exist. ![]() ![]() Like pointed, MacPorts has many many more packages.
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