On Nov 28, 2010, at 19:49, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> The homepage says that MacPorts targets "mainly the current Mac OS X release >> (10.6, A.K.A Snow Leopard) and the immediately previous one (10.5, A.K.A. >> Leopard)". The download page refers to Tiger as a legacy platform. > > If this is meant to imply MacPorts doesn't support Tiger then why: > * provide links for the legacy OS in a prominent location, along side the > supported OS [1]? > * make an at-least statement about supported OS versions rather than a > defined set? > > These statements on the MacPorts site about Tiger are vague. It says one > thing and not enough, then the site turns around and presents Tiger in > another light. I had to read over the text twice to find the legacy platform > note that was mentioned--completely missed it! The first time through all I > read, "Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger." How I read it the first time is the > only visual cue provided on the site. It's as if MacPorts is not stressing > the fact Tiger is a legacy product.
MacPorts itself works on Tiger. Individual ports may or may not work, depending on the effort put in by individual maintainers. > Perhaps this leads us to another issue: why is the MacPorts site a mountain > of text? Even our downloads must be found mid-sentence. > > > > [1] I'm not sure I can call this prominent since it's a clutter of text. > Where are the LEOPARD and SNOW LEOPARD buttons? I agree the web site needs an overhaul. Nobody has thus far done it. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
