Comment by halostatue | Hacker News Reader

Comment by halostatue | Hacker News Reader

I've made a private MacPorts port[1]; if I find that I use it frequently enough, I might contribute it to the main MacPorts port repo[2].

One thing that's missing from my perspective (and this is probably true for Homebrew packaging as well, but I don't do that) is Git tags / GitHub releases associated with your Cargo releases.

I can work around it for now by using an explicit release (`9ccd9bf53f9a309ccda42b5c17e9c1056493fb90` is what I'm assuming was your 0.1.0 release point).

I've also assumed that npm10 is sufficient (which currently installs node22 on MacPorts).

[1] https://github.com/halostatue/ports

[2] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports

[3] https://github.com/halostatue/ports/commit/e7331a7fcae362b0d...

> npm10 is sufficient (which currently installs node22 on MacPorts)

Wait, no, node22 comes with npm10, not the other way around.

MacPorts separates `node` and `npm` packages like many package managers do:

    npm10 @10.9.3 (devel)
    
    Description:          npm is a package manager for node. You can use it to install and publish your node programs. It manages dependencies and does other cool stuff.
    Homepage:             https://www.npmjs.com/
    
    Library Dependencies: nodejs22
    Conflicts with:       npm3, npm4, npm5, npm6, npm7, npm8, npm9, npm11
    Platforms:            any
    License:              MIT
    Policy: openmaintainer

The Portfile that I created specifies that if `npm` is present in $PATH (which isn't the user's $PATH because MacPorts uses `sudo`) then it should be used and assumed correct; otherwise, it says that the `npm10` port must be installed (because the instructions for oxdraw indicate that one must run `npm install && npm build`).

Thanks, that makes sense.

Thankyou!

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