pre 2.0 EOL timeframe?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 20, 2011, at 15:56, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> Oh, for some reason, I thought this was an entirely different engine or
> something.  Maybe I was confused by the ability to install it as an
> ordinary user not needing sudo in front of every port command.

The ability to install as an ordinary user has existed for years.

The ability for MacPorts to run with sudo but drop privileges to an ordinary user has existed since 1.9, and will be on by default (and MacPorts will create that user for you) in 2.0.