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This is an eternal question; however the comments I’ve found about this date of 2008, and I guess have moved since then.
So, DarwinPorts or Fink? (or something else?)
I see that Fink does not yet have a binary installer for snow leopard…
is it a dead project?
Regards,
David
Don’t be confused by DarwinPorts.com. The original DarwinPorts project was renamed to MacPorts a long time ago.
Besides Fink, yet another distributor of open source packages for OS X has arisen in the mean time: Homebrew. Each of the three has its strengths depending on your preferences. None of them currently provide an up-to-date set of binary packages, so whichever you choose, you’ll end having to spend time compiling. In my opinion,
MacPortsis probably the most actively maintained these days and has at least unofficial support from Apple butHomebrewhas been gaining in popularity for its minimalist approach.