[egp]

Mac OpenFOAM Friends,

I got a tiny 11-inch MacBook Air on Friday for travel, and since I had a fresh OS and disk I was reevaluating use of MacPorts. Lately, I've become frustrated by MacPorts, and have discovered Homebrew, http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

Anyone else use Homebrew? Here are a few links comparing Homebrew to MacPorts and Fink:

http://www.astrobetter.com/do-you-ho...orts-and-fink/
http://tedwise.com/2010/08/28/homebrew-vs-macports/
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/12/25/homeb...d-line-lovers/

I installed Homebrew, and used it to install git and gnuplot. Seems to be fast and easy. I did use disk images or precompiled binaries for: OpenFOAM-1.6-ext, ipython/scipy/numpy/matplotlib (from Enthought), XCode developer tools (e.g., mpicc), and MacTex-2010.

I think it would be cool if we could develop a Homebrew formula (a package in Homebrew-speak which is a Ruby script) to build OpenFOAM-extend on OSX.

Eric