

There are many ways you can get involved with MacPorts and peer users, system administrators & developers alike.īrowse over to the “ Contact Us” section of our site and: Research on the idea, draft an initial proposal and get it reviewed.

We have a list of ideas with possible tasks for MacPorts and additional information about the process at wiki/SummerOfCode. Latest MacPorts release: 2.7.2 Getting involved: Students Other important help resources are our online documentation,Ī.K.A The MacPorts Guide, and our Trac Wiki If you run into any problems installing and/or using MacPorts we also have many options to help you, depending on how Getting startedįor information on installing MacPorts please see the installation section of this site andĮxplore the myriad of download options we provide and our base system requirements. There are thousands of ports in our tree, distributed among different categories, and more are being added on a regular basis. (including macOS Monterey v12 on both Intel and Apple Silicon). “unstable” branches, targeting mainly macOS Mojave v10.14 and later
Open mac command line software#
We provide a single software tree that attempts to track the latest release of every software title (port) we distribute, That greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a 3-Clause BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing,Īnd upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac
