darwinports

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The DarwinPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, Mac OS X and Darwin).

This means to be the old companion to MacPorts, but MacPorts isn't original. DarwinPorts is the proud and old version of MacPorts, maybe, but it is DarwinPorts. And it stays to be.

Tags: BSD

"Welcome to the MacPorts project, the project previously known as DarwinPorts. We are in the midst of a transition from our previous hosting at OpenDarwin, to our new hosting provider at http://www.macosforge.org. Please be patient while are new services come up and are explained.

From macports.org:

"Special Maintainer Addresses migrated to new form
Posted by jberry on Friday, November 3rd, 2006 at 9:15 am

MacPorts has long used the maintainer address darwinports@opendarwin.org to signify that a port did not have an active maintainer. We have changed this protocol to use two new addresses (nomaintainer@macports.org and openmaintainer@macports.org). These addresses autorespond with a message referring the reader to http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/SpecialMaintainerAddresses for more information."

by mfichtner, 2007-04-29 (score: 1)

I have no idea what agenda you're trying to push here. But this is nonsense. The DarwinPorts project has been renamed MacPorts. There is no more DarwinPorts. Even the old project site http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ (the one you're listing as this entry's homepage) now redirects to http://www.macports.org/.

by mitleser, 2007-02-20 (score: -1)

For everybody: darwinports is the projekt. How you call your software is not interesting. I know, that there's MacPorts. But darwinports is MacPorts. MacPorts is not darwinports ;), that's the point. Thanks mates!

by mfichtner, 2007-02-16 (score: 3)

DarwinPorts was renamed MacPorts back in August 2006. See "DarwinPorts project announces New Hosting and New Name" under "Project News" at http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ ...