Publisher's Description
From Kevin Walzer:
PortAuthority provides a graphical user interface for the MacPorts package management system for Mac OS X. MacPorts is a powerful command-line tool for installing and updating a variety of Unix-based applications for the Mac. Its power, though, comes at the cost of some complexity; in the past the only way to utilize MacPorts was to type in various commands into the Mac's Terminal application, which can be intimidating for those users without a Unix background. PortAuthority aims to bring the power of MacPorts to the traditional Mac user by providing a user-friendly graphical interface to MacPorts. Using a familiar combination of windows, icons, and menus, PortAuthority users can search, install, update, and remove MacPorts programs and the MacPorts infrastructure itself.
What's new in this version: Version 5.0 introduces a long-requested feature, the ability to install port variants; it improves the program's responsiveness during long-running processes, so it will be less likely to lock up; it now lists all dependencies of a specific port and their dependencies as well, to give a more accurate idea of just how much collateral stuff has to be pulled in to build a specific port; and, a feature that I'm personally proud of, robust AppleScript support so that PortAuthority (and, by extension,... See all new features
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