On 12 May 2017 at 05:17, Craig Treleaven wrote: > Just a heads up that MacPorts is now listed on a site that details all of the > packages carried by a wide variety of repositories: > > https://repology.org/repository/macports > > From a MacPorts developer standpoint, it is not a huge deal but there are a > couple of useful features. If you look up your maintainer address, you can > see at a glance if any of your packages are outdated. This isn’t perfect—for > one of mine, another repo has an apparently bogus version that is ahead of > the current release. Still, most of the comparisons are valid. > > Another feature is that Repology tests all of the URL’s related to a port and > identifies redirects and other concerns. It is always good to get the > details right and this gives you a specific list. Click on your Known > Problems link. > > Another potiential use is when developing a new port. If you look up the > package, you can see details like the names most commonly used, cataegories, > descriptions, and licence. Could save a few moments of pondering. > > BTW, I was surprised to look up “nomaintainer”. This poor fellow is looking > after 9,590 packages and 3,068 of them are outdated! Looks like s/he needs > some help!
Wow, that's amazing, thank you very much for the link, now we only miss the build reports on that page :) We should probably put the link somewhere on our website as well. One of the errors reported to me about whatever_select @1.0 Homepage: http://www.macports.org/ was Homepage link "http://www.macports.org/"; is a permanent redirect to "https://www.macports.org/"; and should be updated Mojca
