Some software infrastructure changes

After quite some time (and probably right before I have to send my Powerbook in for some repairs) I decided I wanted to have something new again, so I first of all thought that my current software management for things like Gimp, Python and Ruby is a complete mess.

What are the advantages of DarwinPorts and how is bzr better than e.g. Subversion?

Thanks in advance

Patrick on July 10, 2007 at 16:30 +0200

Darwinports (or Macports now) is basically like Gentoo's portage system. It's more or less a repository containing instructions on how to build stuff and also manages software that is installed this way. It has the advantage that development there seems to be much faster than on Fink and it saves me from fixing code I want to use by myself ;-)

Well, subversion is centralized, bzr and hg (among others) are decentralized. For me personally both have the advantage that I can also work on my stuff when I'm not online. bzr also has the advantage (over hg this time) that it AFAIK doesn't require per se an external merging application but has something like that built-in. So if you have someone on Windows, all this person need to get running is bzr itself.

zerok on July 21, 2007 at 00:21 +0200

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