Does cygwin have a port equivalent?
So now I have a unix-based laptop (with a glowing piece of fruit on the lid), I have been revisiting saved blog articles about snazzy unix-only short cuts and hacks.
The first one I craved? Auto-complete for rake.
$ wget http://pastie.caboo.se/17743.txt
-bash: wget: command not found
What the? wget isn’t a standard command? Well, let me just fix that right now.
$ sudo port install wget
Password:
—> Fetching wget
—> Attempting to fetch wget-1.10.2.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget
—> etc etc etc til success
port (aka DarwinPorts aka MacPorts) is sweet simple awesomeness.
When fetchin new apps from cygwin I’ve always used the GUI installer. I wonder if it has a command-line equivalent to port?
Perhaps renaming Cygwin’s famous setup.exe to port.exe might sooth the soreness.
