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In the Install section of the OpenEXR docs, we show how one would install via Homebrew, which is fine, but then we say "We do not recommend installation via Macports [sic] because the distribution is out of date". It's true that MacPorts is behind, at 3.1.11, whereas Homebrew is current with 3.2.1; but the MacPorts comment was inserted because they were incredibly out of date (as in didn't have an OpenEXR 3.x port for years). They deserve better.
Interestingly, I am pretty sure we meant to make a comparable comment re: MacPorts on the Imath install page, but someone typo'd, and it says "On macOS, we do not recommend installation via HomeBrew [sic] because the distribution is outdated". Homebrew is actually fully caught up at Imath 3.1.9...and so is MacPorts.
How would people feel about my preparing a PR that put MacPorts on an equal footing with Homebrew as far as macOS package manager installation goes?
I can nudge the maintainers to get MacPorts' Portfile for OpenEXR back to currency/parity.
Meanwhile I need to break it to Larry over on OpenImageIO that he can probably stop mentioning fink in his installation instructions.
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A PR sounds to be in order. I don't think we need to caution about either homebrew or macports at the moment as there are folks such as yourself actively moving things along. Also, Happy New Year!
In the Install section of the OpenEXR docs, we show how one would install via Homebrew, which is fine, but then we say "We do not recommend installation via Macports [sic] because the distribution is out of date". It's true that MacPorts is behind, at 3.1.11, whereas Homebrew is current with 3.2.1; but the MacPorts comment was inserted because they were incredibly out of date (as in didn't have an OpenEXR 3.x port for years). They deserve better.
Interestingly, I am pretty sure we meant to make a comparable comment re: MacPorts on the Imath install page, but someone typo'd, and it says "On macOS, we do not recommend installation via HomeBrew [sic] because the distribution is outdated". Homebrew is actually fully caught up at Imath 3.1.9...and so is MacPorts.
How would people feel about my preparing a PR that put MacPorts on an equal footing with Homebrew as far as macOS package manager installation goes?
I can nudge the maintainers to get MacPorts' Portfile for OpenEXR back to currency/parity.
Meanwhile I need to break it to Larry over on OpenImageIO that he can probably stop mentioning
fink
in his installation instructions.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: