[nycbug-talk] what happened to darwinports?

Mikel King mikel.king at techally.com
Tue May 1 15:46:19 EDT 2007


On May 1, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Peter Wright wrote:

>
>> Peter Wright wrote:
>>> so i've been using darwin ports for a long time now - but only  
>>> recently
>>> went back to their website.  am i crazy or did something major  
>>> change on
>>> their site recently.
>>>
>>> i can't even find the documentation anymore...if things are changing
>>> over
>>> there is it just superfical or are there other changes happening  
>>> behind
>>> the scenes as well?
>>>
>>> maybe i'm just being crazy...
>>>
>>
>> Apple collapsed and made it MacPorts. . .
>>
>> http://www.macports.org/
>>
>
> ahh..so apple pulled the plug on the project?  lame.  are the same  
> people
> in charge of it, or did new leadership come in?
>
> -p
>


I can not attest as to the leadership, but thus far other than the  
name/URL change. Everything seems to work the same. I'd recommend  
that you grab the latest version though from the macports site and  
run the seflupdate from there.

Cheers,
Mikel



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