Re: Poll for macosx and windows users

Robert Dodier <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:08:28 -0800

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings!  On a related topic, do macosx users typically use macports,
> homebrew, or compile on their own?  Likewise to windows users use cygwin
> or compile on their own?

Not sure to what software you're referring, whether it's GCL, GMP,
Maxima, or whatever. In any event, when I work on macOS, I have often
used Homebrew, and .dmg installers, and also compiled packages myself.
I've used macports a few times.

On Windows, I typically rely on pre-packaged installers. Windows
doesn't have Homebrew or anything like that to the best of my
knowledge. My experience has been that trying to set up a development
environment is phenomenally painful, so compiling stuff is a method of
last resort for me.

FWIW & all the best.

Robert