Please clear up DarwinPort/MacPorts confusion

[James Berry]

Hi Dan,

Sorry, we've been waiting to put up a 1.4 release announcement until  
the dmg's were built, which finished last night. I'll be posting a  
new announcement this morning.

Yes, 1.4.0 is final.

Sorry about the other pages: you may have found darwinports.com,  
which is run by a third party that tries to make money off of our  
project. Our old site, darwinports.org, redirects to macports.org,  
our official site. The old site at darwinports.opendarwin.org  
_should_ be made to redirect to www.macports.org (and now does).

And about there being no "about" page, I fall on the mercy of the court.

James


On Apr 5, 2007, at 7:40 AM, 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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