"Documentation" milestone renamed
Evening everyone! I recently renamed the "Documentation" milestone up on our roadmap to "Website & Documentation", so that tickets for the trunk/www space that's currently being rewritten can be grouped there too (tickets have the option of a 'www' component, which should be a natural choice). Unfortunately, the new name tosses the milestone to the end of the roadmap, so feel free to suggest a new/better one if you have any ideas. On a related note, the new website is shaping up pretty good, albeit a bit slowly as Chris and I haven't had much time lately. In any case, I do believe it is in a stage where it can already receive criticism, so please do voice your ideas and opinions (either on this list or as trac tickets, or both) if you have any input on the content and/or structure. As always, trunk/www HEAD is always being made available at my server: http://apollo.homeunix.net/macports And my ideas for how the end product should look like are contained at the end of a message on the topic I posted in August: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-August/ 002642.html I do welcome any feedback on that and/or what's currently in trunk/ www. For the record, next up on my list is the rewrite of the main index.php page and of the last two sections ("Help" & "SVN Sources") of getmp.php. Regards,... -jmpp
On 15 Sep 2007, at 02:48, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
I do welcome any feedback on that and/or what's currently in trunk/ www. For the record, next up on my list is the rewrite of the main index.php page and of the last two sections ("Help" & "SVN Sources") of getmp.php.
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. Randall Wood rhwood@mac.com http://shyramblings.blogspot.com "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest is just philosophy."
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
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Anders F Björklund
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Juan Manuel Palacios
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Randall Wood