Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#49024 closed defect (fixed)

MacPorts download not available for ElCapitan

Reported by: coolfactor@… Owned by: jmroot (Joshua Root)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 2.3.3
Keywords: Cc: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt), vallon (Justin), p.perroud@…, nils.hjelte@…
Port:

Description

The Yosemite installer won't run on El Capitan. I'm very surprised that MacPorts is not yet ready after months of public betas. Is there a documented history of how it got to this point? Lacking volunteers? The @MacPorts Twitter feed has been silent for months. Is this project dying in favour of alternatives (eg. Homebrew)?

Change History (7)

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: ryandesign@… added
Component: portsbase
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to jmr@…

We typically do not release a MacPorts installer for a version of OS X until the final version of that version of OS X is released, which for El Capitan just happened yesterday. We are preparing a new version of MacPorts 2.3.4 which will include an installer for El Capitan. Please wait. If you cannot wait, you can install MacPorts from source.

We are not dying. I'm not sure who, if anyone at this point, handles the MacPorts twitter handle. We primarily communicate with users via our mailing lists and IRC.

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by coolfactor@…

Thank you Ryan. I appreciate the quick response. I did manage to figure it out via a blog post instructing to rebuild MacPorts manually, and then run selfupdate, which reinstalls each port for this newer architecture. I guess I just wish the Migrations page was not so confusing. It wasn't helpful at all. And Xcode doesn't seem to be getting better, only more complicated. Installing the command line tools used to be so obvious, but no longer is.

comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by vallon (Justin)

Cc: JustinVallon@… added

Cc Me!

comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by p.perroud@…

Cc: p.perroud@… added

Cc Me!

comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by neverpanic (Clemens Lang)

Just for the record: raimue@ controls @macports on twitter.

comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by nils.hjelte@…

Cc: nils.hjelte@… added

Cc Me!

comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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