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16 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 15 comments · first 2018-10-10 · latest 2026-08-21

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  1. In my experience, you want "emacs-app", which is just upstream emacs compiled with Aqua support ( https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/81b99bcf7c59... ) to avoid going through XQuartz.
    comment by BoingBoomTschak · 2026-08-21 · in Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
  2. …if you submit it to macports/macports-ports: {macports.halostatue.ca:austin @halostatue} I maintain https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/sysut... amongst other things regularly.
    comment by halostatue · 2026-03-10 · in Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
  3. …(which currently installs node22 on MacPorts). [1] https://github.com/halostatue/ports [2] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports [3] https://github.com/halostatue/ports/commit/e7331a7fcae362b0d...
    comment by halostatue · 2025-10-26 · in Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
  4. …Tcl significantly. EDIT: The expect[1] command also uses Tcl and has a variant which uses Tk. 0 - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports 1 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=expect&apropos=0&s...
    comment by AdieuToLogic · 2025-09-01 · in Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL
  5. …majority of Unix-like OS user-space programs. 0 - https://github.com/macports/macports-base 1 - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports
    comment by AdieuToLogic · 2025-04-05 · in The Tcl Programming Language
  6. …an oppressive number of PRs open, although it seems the new submissions drag their feet quite a bit https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i... Also, it seems there is currently one in progress to drop the "6" qualifier…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-04-05 · in FFmpeg 7.0
  7. …if you have it installed. 5.6.1 was available for a few days and just rolled back ~20 minutes ago: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/a1388aee09...
    comment by pjl · 2024-03-29 · in Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
  8. …files [1] are actually TCL programs. MacPorts itself is built on TCL [2] [1] Example portfile: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/shell... [2] Macports source: https://github.com/macports/macports-base/tree/release-2.7/s…
    comment by AceJohnny2 · 2021-07-27 · in THC: Tight Home Control, automation framework in Tcl
  9. …any issues (so far). [1]: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/development/compiling... [2]: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9552
    comment by sirn · 2020-12-30 · in Ask HN: Has anyone purchased the base M1 Mac Mini for development work?
  10. …evaluated entirely within interp[2] with only few functions exposed inside the environment [1]: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/lang/... [2]: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/interp.htm
    comment by sirn · 2020-09-06 · in I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (2008)
  11. mas is independent of Homebrew and available on MacPorts: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/sysut... . There's discussion on the mailing list on whether MacPorts should have a sort of "caskroom" type thing–currently it…
    comment by saagarjha · 2020-08-22 · in macOS Security and Privacy Guide
  12. …that it's dead is certainly symptomatic of an issue for the project. [1] yes yes Monty Python [2] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports
    comment by AceJohnny2 · 2019-06-06 · in macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl
  13. I thought so too at first, but it's not! It's maintained relatively actively ( https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commits/master ), so I think this perspective is mostly just a result of Homebrew having better marketing/more people…
    comment by saagarjha · 2019-04-30 · in Thoughts on macOS Package Managers
  14. …info shellcheck` shows just three (build-time) dependencies: cabal-install, ghc, and pandoc. [1]: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commits/master/de...
    comment by woodruffw · 2019-02-22 · in Testing Bash with BATS
  15. …system, so that they can easily interface with GitHub, CMake, gobject_introspection, etc... [1] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports
    comment by AceJohnny2 · 2018-10-10 · in A packaging tutorial for Guix