Hi Daniel. Please use Reply To All to keep this discussion on the mailing list. More below: On Mar 17, 2007, at 07:41, Daniel B. Koch wrote:

Hi Ryan,

The reason I downloaded it from there is because this link is broken:

http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ports/?by=name&substr=gftp

I did in fact use the port install command. Further searching yielded an issue with gftp on BSD-type systems so I'll try some other things. I must admit, I'm confused over all the various sites. As a long-time Fedora Core user, I was looking for a good package manager for Darwin similar to yum and found:

http://darwinports.opendarwin.org

Note that part of the reason for the rename of the project from DarwinPorts to MacPorts is that we are no longer targeting standalone Darwin, but instead only Mac OS X. Some ports in MacPorts may still work on pure Darwin, but this will probably become less and less likely as time goes on and fewer and fewer people actually test any of the ports on pure Darwin.

It lead me here:

http://www.macosforge.org/

and here:

http://www.macports.org/

Right, that's the new URL. DarwinPorts used to be hosted by OpenDarwin. But when OpenDarwin decided to shut down, the project sought new hosting from the new Mac OS Forge, which is run by Apple.

I still have not found the new site for all the ports:

http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ports/

Can you tell me where they went? I thought it was here:

http://darwinports.com

Unfortunately, darwinports.com is owned by someone not affiliated with the MacPorts project. That's another reason the project name was changed -- so we could own all the relevant domains. It would be more clear if the MacPorts project could acquire the rogue darwinports.com domain and redirect it to the macports.org domain. However this has so far been unsuccessful. In the new site, the only source for the ports is the Subversion repository: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports That's not necessarily a good thing or even intentional, it's just the way it is right now. However I don't generally use the site to learn about ports; the "port" command in the Terminal is all I've needed to use MacPorts. For example, "port search foo" to find all ports whose name contains "foo".

I'm not familiar with the history of the groups involved so forgive me if I've stumbled onto something contentious. I'm just looking for Darwin versions of familiar Linux tools.

Thanks, Dan