On 2009-07-24 19:13 , Scott Haneda wrote: > Are MacPorts port files compatable with Darwin Ports? Is Darwin Ports > still even alive?
DarwinPorts is the old name of MacPorts. It is the same project. What you see at that website is a scam which only wants to make money. See <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/DarwinPorts> for details. > Where does Fink fit into all this? If Fink is still active, would it > not make sense to team up and consolidate the two projects? Perhaps > there are fundamental differences in Fink and MacPorts. Fink uses Debian-based tools like dpkg and apt-get. The project is alive to my knowledge. It is a different approach, so consolidating would rather be an either/or decision. Multiple options are good as people can decide what they want to use. > What are the package managers for the other BSD's? If I was to desire > to start using something like FreeBSD or openBSD, would I be able to > have easy access to all the great software MacPorts offers? NetBSD uses pkgsrc, FreeBSD/OpenBSD use a port system based on Makefiles. In general their collections are bigger and better maintained than the MacPorts ports tree. > Getting a little off topic, how parallel are the other BSD's to OS X. > For example, would I find launchd on free/open BSD? launchd was invented by Apple and is currently only used there (except Darwin derivates). The Apache License 2.0 does not qualify for base systems on *BSD, so I don't think it will ever be used as init there. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users