/Applications/DarwinPorts -> /Applications/MacPorts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 26, 2006, at 11:56, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:
>
>> On 23.10.2006, at 19.54, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 23, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:
>>>
>>>> should we change /Applications/DarwinPorts/ to /Applications/ 
>>>> MacPorts/ ? This is not a functional issue, it just would make  
>>>> the system a more consistent one.
>>>> One of my ports is going to have a new version soon, and I am  
>>>> tempted to do this…
>>>
>>> I vote for "/Applications/Ports" in case we need to change the  
>>> name again. :-)
>>
>> This is very much ok for me. If there are no objections, I'll do  
>> it this way with the next version (when it comes out)!
>
> I vote for /Applications/MacPorts for several reasons:
>
> 1) It keeps our name in the folder.
>
> 2) I like the name /Applications/MacPorts better :)
>
> 3) It's better for somebody who goes on a system that has MacPorts  
> installed and doesn't know what it is.  If they saw a Ports  
> directory, going a Google for 'Ports' wouldn't tell them much,  
> while Googling for 'MacPorts' would find us.
>
> 4) I doubt we'll do another rename.
>
> 5) I've got commits already into /Applications/MacPorts, such as  
> XEmacs, before this thread.
>
> Maybe we should have more input from other other committers.

I have to agree that "MacPorts" would be better, for reasons 1-4.