macOS Package Management Documentation

Hi there! 👋

I was so impressed by @leycec’s way of writing issues/README/etc. (it’s amazing ✨) that I felt compelled to help in the way I knew best, macOS package management.

Unfortunately, Homebrew doesn’t really do python modules, so following https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9756, beartype has been added to MacPorts! Here is the Project Page.

I am notified whenever you release a new version on GitHub, so I will aim to update the Portfile with your release (and I have generally been pretty consistent with this for the other ports I maintain).

I opened this issue since I thought it might be useful to document this. Let me know if you have any questions about this, and thank you very much for this project 👍.

EDIT: I nearly forgot, here’s how to install the project:

sudo port install py-beartype

[leycec]

Obligatory swamp football GOOOOOOAL!

Consider it done. The URLs have been corrected and everything seems all good.

@harens: the package maintainer we didn’t deserve but got anyway.

If there’s anything else I can do to help, anything at all, please don’t hesitate to ask.

You’ve sacrificed too much at the bloodstained altar of Python typing already.

I only ask that you stay bright, bubbly, and idealistic – the three D&D traits above all else that will faithfully see you through dark, non-bubbly, and pessimistic times. I had a ten-year period (…so, a decade then?) where I didn’t follow that advice. ^{Yup. It was my thirties.}

I read one too many peer-reviewed papers in credible fields like ecology, climatology, and geology. In hindsight, I shouldn’t have done that. But I did. No one likes a wicked problem they can’t solve.

I’ve never unlearned what I learned, but I try not to dwell on physical reality anymore. Let the chips of industrial civilization fall where they may, but I’ll forcefully fan the flames of wild ebullience instead. To quote the greatest dead satirist of all time: ^{Yup. It’s Pratchett.}

Then Carrot said, “It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That’s what they say.”

Godspeed and may the eldritch mystical isle of Albion be with you always.

[leycec]

I’m trying to get a GitHub Action for this up and running and I’ll let you know if it amounts to anything.

Oh, boy. This is me making giddy sounds, because that sounds like the Big Boss of GitHub package automation.

The best I’ve personally seen so far is conda-forge, a third-party Anaconda service that automatically bumps Anaconda packages whenever the corresponding PyPI package is bumped. It’s… absurdly insane, actually. They have my undying respect, which will only matter should I unfortunately turn undead later in life.

Looking forward to bumping the Portfile at the end of this month.