Randall Wood wrote:
This is just a comment on the getmp.php page:
Maybe it should be organized such that all the stuff about "if you are not using OS X..." is below the package installer section. Also we could put a large "download now" item (button/banner/whatever) that downloads the .pkg for your OS if it is available, or the source tarball in all other cases in a manner similar to the sourceforge.net download now buttons.
Probably a better split between "Binary Installation" and "Source Installation", instead of hardcoding it to "Mac OS X Package (.pkg) Installer". Another question is whether we'd want to link directly to the source tarball for MacPorts-1.5.2 ? So that you'd either do "binary package + port selfupdate", or you'd download the latest sources directly if you're going to do the regular installation routine anyway... http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/MacPorts/ MacPorts-1.5.2.tar.bz2 Mostly this is because "selfupdate" doesn't work on other platforms at the moment, since the defaults are currently hardwired to Mac OS X. That doesn't have to be, though, autoconf can discover almost anything. It would be nice if we could remove "GNU bash" and "GNU make" from requirements, too. http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12252 (configure requires bash) http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12247 (Makefiles require gnumake) --anders