The opendarwin .com debacle

[Juan Germán Castañeda Echevarria]

2009/10/23 Emmanuel Hainry <milosh at macports.org>

>
> The anchor is one thing, the destination is another. Which is the page
> to link from upstream webpage? I see at least 3 possibilities:
> 1) www.macports.org: that's what I did for mpd. There
> is also a text explaining the command to install mpd from macports.
> 2) http://www.macports.org/ports.php and if possible the specific page
> for the port. But it is not informative in any way and you cannot get a
> link for some ports (mpd for example)
> 3) http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/audio/mpd/Portfile
>
> None of those is both informative on the port and readable. Note that
> fink has beautiful pages for each port:
> http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/mpd. mpd_darwinports_com also
> has a page (not more interesting than the Portfile). So
> who will write a Portfile_to_webpage script to have a readable and
> informative page for each port? In a perfect world, this page would also
> feature a link to the bugs reported against this port. Doing better than
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/mpd could be a goal.
>

Couldn't this be made by creating the MacPorts web application?

I think James Berry was working on it and if I can help with its
development, I'd be honoured.

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