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[Norman Gray]

Greetings,

[following up a 6 December 2006 thread]

Nathan Stocks wrote:

> Related to this issue, it was very non-intuitive to me that you had to
> click on a "Source Code" link to get to the .dmg downloads at all.  It
> literally took me 10 minutes of poking around the site today to find
> the images, and most of that was simply figuring out that the download
> area was called "Source Code".
>
> Would the powers-that-be object to changing that link to "Downloads"
> or something like that?

I got to the downloads via the wiki page at <http:// 
trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/InstallingMacPorts>.  This  
says `Download the latest MacPorts .dmg disk image you find in the  
MacPorts download area', but what you find when you follow that link  
is a number of directories named `DarwinPorts', and a  
DarwinPorts .dmg.  That's very confusing, whether or not you know  
MacPorts' history as DarwinPorts.  It looks like you've been  
misdirected to a DarwinPorts legacy distribution (or something like  
that).

So can I suggest (a) changing these build products so that they're  
called MacPorts, and (echoing Nathan) (b) having a 'Download' link  
directly on the macports.org front page.

All the best,

Norman


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