Please clear up DarwinPort/MacPorts confusion

Dan Delaney ddelaney at powercreative.com
Thu Apr 5 10:32:35 PDT 2007


On 4/5/07 12:36 PM, "James Berry" <james at jberry.us> wrote:
> 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.

Sweet! Thanks James. I just came to the site at the wrong time (awkward
period between you putting the files there and announcing them.)


> The old site at darwinports.opendarwin.org
> _should_ be made to redirect to www.macports.org.

Ahhh. That's where the confusion is coming in. If you search for darwinports
or "darwin ports" on Google, the very first link that comes up says
"DarwinPorts Home" and it links to darwinports.opendarwin.org, which neither
redirects to macports.org nor even has a link anywhere on it to
macports.org. I don't know if you all even still have access to edit that
site anymore, but that's the one I was suggesting ought to be merely one
page that gives people a brief explanation and a big link to macports.org.


> 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. 

Never got to that one. It's the third link down on the google search.

Glad to see 1.4 is final. Great job! You guys have done a great service to
the Mac community.

Thanks
--Dan
________________________________________________
 Dan Delaney, Sr. Interactive Analyst/Developer
 Power Creative, 502-297-6632





More information about the macports-users mailing list