Fink or Macports?
febeling: MacPorts lacks a few contributers, I think. Actually, they welcome people willing to contribute and give commit rights liberally, when you're interested. The documentation on how you should apply to join sounds more buraucratic then it feels in reality. So if you use it and fix things for yourself locally, then consider joining as well by all means, we can only all benefit from it mutually.As somebody working with code all the time, I like MP's approach of compiling yourself, possibly patching memory profiling into your ruby, or whatever you might need.