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21st September 2009 - Link Blog

homebrew. Exciting alternative to MacPorts for compiling software on OS X—homebrew avoids sudo and defines packages as simple Ruby scripts, shared and distributed using Git.

Posted 21st September 2009 at 6:51 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 21st September 2009.

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