What's the status of the dotnet ports on MacPorts ? Q1: is it something people are interested in keeping alive ? Q2: am I better off by using the M$ installs ?
MacPorts has : $=> port search dotnet | grep '(dotnet' dotnet-cli @8.0.7 (dotnet) dotnet-runtime-2.1 @2.1.30_1 (dotnet) dotnet-runtime-3.1 @3.1.32_1 (dotnet) dotnet-runtime-6 @6.0.32 (dotnet) dotnet-runtime-7 @7.0.20 (dotnet) dotnet-runtime-8 @8.0.7 (dotnet) dotnet-runtime-9 @9.0.6 (dotnet) dotnet-runtime-devel @9.0.0-preview.6.24327.7 (dotnet) dotnet-sdk-2.1 @2.1.818_1 (dotnet, devel) dotnet-sdk-3.1 @3.1.426_2 (dotnet, devel) dotnet-sdk-6 @6.0.424 (dotnet, devel) dotnet-sdk-7 @7.0.410 (dotnet, devel) dotnet-sdk-8 @8.0.303 (dotnet, devel) dotnet-sdk-devel @9.0.100-preview.6.24328.19 (dotnet, devel) So, the runtime has been updated to dotnet-9; but the sdk hasn't And dotnet-sdk-devel @9.0.100-preview.6.24328.19 fails to install with : ---> Fetching archive for dotnet-sdk-devel ---> Attempting to fetch dotnet-sdk-9.0.100-preview.6.24328.19-osx-x64.tar.gz from https://distfiles.macports.org/dotnet-sdk-devel ---> Verifying checksums for dotnet-sdk-devel ---> Extracting dotnet-sdk-devel ---> Configuring dotnet-sdk-devel ---> Building dotnet-sdk-devel ---> Staging dotnet-sdk-devel into destroot Error: Failed to destroot dotnet-sdk-devel: error renaming "/opt/local/var/macports/build/dotn4AqnwC/work/dotnet-sdk-devel-9.0.100-preview.6.24328.19/sdk-manifests/9.0.100-preview.4": no such file or directory hmmm ... looks as if there's an incorrect numbering somewhere in the Portfile : Im guessing .../sdk-manifests/9.0.100-preview.4 ought to be .../sdk-manifests/9.0.100-preview.6 dotnet-sdk-devel @9.0.100-preview.4.24267.66_0 did install According to https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download , the current version are : Version 8.0.18, released July 8, 2025 Version 9.0.7, released July 8, 2025 Version 10.0.0-preview.5.25277.114, released June 10, 2025 -- Bjarne D Mathiesen Slagelse ; Danmark ; Europa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- denne besked er skrevet i et totalt M$-frit miljø MacPro 2010 5.1 ; OpenCore + macOS 14.7.6 Sonoma 2 x 3,46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon ; 192 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC RDIMM ATI Radeon RX 590 8 GB
