Kismet and Tiger

[Jeremy Lavergne]

> The homepage says that MacPorts targets "mainly the current Mac OS X release (10.6, A.K.A Snow Leopard) and the immediately previous one (10.5, A.K.A. Leopard)". The download page refers to Tiger as a legacy platform.

If this is meant to imply MacPorts doesn't support Tiger then why:
 * provide links for the legacy OS in a prominent location, along side the supported OS [1]?
 * make an at-least statement about supported OS versions rather than a defined set?

These statements on the MacPorts site about Tiger are vague. It says one thing and not enough, then the site turns around and presents Tiger in another light. I had to read over the text twice to find the legacy platform note that was mentioned--completely missed it! The first time through all I read, "Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger." How I read it the first time is the only visual cue provided on the site. It's as if MacPorts is not stressing the fact Tiger is a legacy product.

Perhaps this leads us to another issue: why is the MacPorts site a mountain of text? Even our downloads must be found mid-sentence.



[1] I'm not sure I can call this prominent since it's a clutter of text. Where are the LEOPARD and SNOW LEOPARD buttons?