On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > > If we were talking about portmgr then I would agree. But I don't think > MacPorts is a collective noun, it's a proper noun denoting a single > project. That the name has a plural form probably confuses the issue > further. > > If we referred to the ports themselves as MacPorts then it might be > different ("MacPorts are easy to write"), but almost nobody does that.
These seem to make sense to me: > Portmgr are the people that direct the MacPorts project. > MacPorts is a software package management tool. > Portfiles are the files that describe how a package will be built and > installed. > A single Portfile is generally easy to write. I think the more important question is what the "venery" term is for portfiles. "A MacPorts of Portfiles" doesn't sound that great. A TCL of Portfiles? -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
