Please clear up DarwinPort/MacPorts confusion

[Jaroslav Hron]

Hi - to increase the confusion level...

Why is my port instalation saying:

port version
Version: 1.500

Am I living on some bleeding edge developement version
without knowing it?

My settings in port.conf:

# Rsync server to use
rsync_server            rsync.macports.org

# Rsync directory from which to pull the base/ component  
(infrastructure) of DP
rsync_dir                       dpupdate/base/

Thanks, J.


On Apr 5, 2007, at 16:40 , Dan Delaney wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I've decided to use MacPorts for my Intel-based MacBook, but the  
> web pages
> seem a bit confusing. First, the DarwinPorts page looks as if it's  
> still
> active. The only mention of the switch to MacPorts is in a news  
> entry. And
> even in that there's no link to the new website. The rest of the  
> DarwinPorts
> site still looks like nothing has changed. It seems to me that that  
> page
> should be completely changed to be just a single page that tells  
> people that
> the DarwinPorts project has transitioned to the MacPorts project  
> and gives
> them a big link over the the MacPorts page.
>
> Second, the MacPorts page doesn't have much infomration. No "About"  
> page
> explaining anything. And most importantly, nothing explaining what the
> "current stable version" is. So when I go to Downloads I see  
> DarwinPorts
> 1.3.2 and MacPorts 1.4, yet since the Website doesn't have any  
> information
> about this 1.4 release, I don't know if this is alpha, beta, or what.
>
> Can someone please explain what the deal is with this MacPorts 1.4  
> release?
> Is that the current recommended download or is it just an alpha or  
> a beta?
>
> Thanks
> --Dan
>
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