Darwin Ports

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Jul 24 11:01:30 PDT 2009


On 2009-7-25 03:28, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2009, at 13:13 , Scott Haneda wrote:
>> Are MacPorts port files compatable with Darwin Ports? Is Darwin Ports
>> still even alive?
> 
> AFAIK MacPorts *is* (or is the successor to) DarwinPorts; the two are
> not entirely compatible as MacPorts has evolved considerably.

Right, DarwinPorts changed its name to MacPorts back in 2006:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.opendarwin.darwinports/18725>

Note that there is a web site that falsely claims to be "the original
DarwinPorts", about which there is some info here:
<http://trac.macports.org/wiki/DarwinPorts>

- Josh


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