Forum?

[syed zubair]

What is the difference between the two? Mailing list and Forum.
Sounds somewhat contrived!
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> To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> From: rlhamil at smart.net
> Subject: Re: Forum?
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:09:18 +0000
> 
> In article <AC99CF01-619D-4227-B354-B686AD1C4AAC at gmail.com>,
> 	Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> On Oct 11, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> On Oct 11, 2011, at 9:43 AM, John wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Hi, does MacPorts have a forum? I think I would like a forum instead of a mailing list, just saying..............Great stuff you guys are doing BTW.
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> This *is* the forum, and judging by the fact that there is no alternative, it would be safe to assume that most users prefer this.
> >>> 
> >>> And, I agree with you, MacPorts *is* the beesknees. The best thing since Unix on Mac.
> >>> 
> >>> (Would love to have a GUI package manager -- one that works on Lion -- kinda like what R has, but I am assuming it is too much work to be worth it).
> >> 
> >> Have you looked at Pallet?
> >> 
> >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsGUI
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > yup... crashes on Lion every single time.
> > 
> > Puneet.
> > 
> 
> Liked Porticus better - did more of what I wanted.  But it hasn't been ported to Lion, and might not be.  If Pallet has all the same functionality (including detecting and allowing the choice of build options), I haven't figured it out yet.
> 
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