Replying quickly to just a single comment, as I haven't been able to keep up with the thread lately: On Apr 11, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

I'd say this list is fine. There's only the dev and the users list.

Actually I'd like to move this discussion to the dev list entirely. First off, the discussion is currently split between the two lists (which I realize is my fault to begin with for having cross-posted when I began the thread), so concentrating it on a single one is a good thing. But other than the users list being of higher volume and messages tend to get lost easily (which I know it's something I can fix locally with a good mail client ;-), I believe this thread pertains more to the development of the project than to user support, which is what users@ is for. I think we can all agree that the people we want involved in our documentation should at least have some notions of programming/MacPorts development, at least enough to know there's a dev@ mailing list and to want to subscribe to it ;-) Signal to noise ratio on users@ is lower, I believe. So lets keep it on dev@, please. -jmpp