Dan Delaney wrote:
Hi all.
I've decided to use MacPorts for my Intel-based MacBook, but the web pages
seem a bit confusing. First, the DarwinPorts page looks as if it's still
active. The only mention of the switch to MacPorts is in a news entry. And
even in that there's no link to the new website. The rest of the DarwinPorts
site still looks like nothing has changed. It seems to me that that page
should be completely changed to be just a single page that tells people that
the DarwinPorts project has transitioned to the MacPorts project and gives
them a big link over the the MacPorts page.
Second, the MacPorts page doesn't have much infomration. No "About" page
explaining anything. And most importantly, nothing explaining what the
"current stable version" is. So when I go to Downloads I see DarwinPorts
1.3.2 and MacPorts 1.4, yet since the Website doesn't have any information
about this 1.4 release, I don't know if this is alpha, beta, or what.
Can someone please explain what the deal is with this MacPorts 1.4 release?
Is that the current recommended download or is it just an alpha or a beta?
Thanks
--Dan
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The transition of MacPorts from its old site to its new home is a "work
in progress." The old site was mostly static pages, and was
well-designed and organized, with clear links to downloading and
installing MacPorts. The documentation was a bit outdated, but it was
generally "good enough" to get going once you had things installed. In
short, it was user-friendly.
The new site is hosted on top of a bug-tracking system (Trac) and wiki
(which allows user-editing of documents). It is very developer-centric,
not user-centric. Some strides have been made in posting links on the
front page to obvious things like downloads and "getting started," and
once you poke around inside the documents, you'll see that they are
pretty complete, up-to-date, and helpful: the developers done a very
good job with this part. But *finding* the information you need, like
which download to use, can be time-consuming, because the site is still
hard to navigate.
The current "official" binary release is 1.3.1, with a link here:
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/DarwinPorts-1.3.1/DarwinPorts-1.3.1-10.4.dmg
Download this and run "sudo port selfupdate" to bootstrap to the latest
MacPorts bits.
The 1.4 release is still, as far as I know, not ready/in beta mode. If
the 1.4 version that is available for download at the site is the
"official" latest version, I must have missed the announcement of its
release.
--
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com
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