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Jordan Hubbard, one of the original authors of the FreeBSD Ports Collection, later went on to create MacPorts, an evolution of the idea written in TCL instead of Makefiles. Further, NetBSD's pkgsrc is available natively on macOS. In either case, the idea of ports which originated here spread to macOS. Note that in the HISTORY section.

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ziaee requested review of this revision.Mar 2 2025, 10:58 PM

Jessica Hawkwell pointed out on Community Discord that actually it's spelled macOS.

ziaee retitled this revision from ports.7/history: Don't forget MacOS! to ports.7/history: don't forget MacOS!.Mar 2 2025, 11:10 PM
ziaee retitled this revision from ports.7/history: don't forget MacOS! to ports.7/history: don't forget macOS!.
ziaee retitled this revision from ports.7/history: don't forget macOS! to ports.7/history: Don't forget macOS!.
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 3 2025, 2:47 PM
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