MacPorts not only automates the installation ( and configuring and uninstallation) of Mac software, it also makes sure that all prerequisite software is installed on a system before it installs any given piece of software.
INSTALL GITX ON MAC FOR MAC OS X
MacPorts is a package management system for Mac OS X open source software. I installed MacPorts (homepage here, installation here) and explored their site to see their selection of open source (and free!) software. Most importantly, it includes an Apple-modified (optimized? patched?) version of the GNU Compiler Collection, which supports compilation of programs written in C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Java, AppleScript, Python, FORTRAN and Ruby. It includes an editor and debugger for generating and perfecting code.
Xcode is Apple’s proprietary Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing software for Apple’s products. And if it isn’t about Macs, then it will be about the the Linux software that I run on my Mac using my Parallels Desktop virtual machine. Soooo … when I talk about computers or software on this blog it will most likely be about Macs. And I think that there are a lot of great scientific and numerical tools out there for science-y types who choose to use Apple products.
INSTALL GITX ON MAC MAC OSX
It is because my first computer experiences were with UNIX and I just feel more comfortable with UNIX or UNIX-like systems … like Mac OSX and Linux. It isn’t because I think that Microsoft products aren’t good. Oh well …Īnyway … Why do I say all this? It is just my long-winded way of saying that I’m a Mac person and, to a much lesser extent, a Linux person. I’m actually pretty embarrassed to admit that because it pretty much renders me technologically irrelevant in today’s “fast-paced business and office environment”. But I’ve never really done much with Windows. Since then I’ve also played a little with some Linux boxes and I’ve even run some FORTRAN code on the old Cray Y-MP. My first real exposure to a warm, glowing computer didn’t come until the mid-80s when I left for college and finally got my hands on the campus UNIX workstations.
I did have a couple of class sessions in high school that centered on computers but I can’t remember if I actually got to touch a computer in those classes. My family didn’t have a computer in our home when I was growing up. I hope that somebody finds this information useful and is able to use it to set-up his/her computer in less time than it took me to configure mine.
INSTALL GITX ON MAC PRO
I’m going to use this entry to describe a few things that I’ve done to configure my MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) for scientific computing.
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