I added a page to the Wiki to more or less comprehensively cover MacPorts installation: Installiing MacPorts, X11, setting the shell. Right now it is OS X 10.4 only. Comments are welcome. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/InstallingMacPorts I'd like to delete the ManuallySettingShell at the top-level since it isn't needed anymore. I also propose the structure as shown below for the Wiki. I think the current structure needs improvement. Mark -------------------------------------- ** MacPorts Starting Points ** I) Home Page II) Getting Your Mac Ready for MacPorts 1) Install Xcode Tools 2) Install the MacPorts Binary 3) Installing X11 and setting the shell (optional) II) Using MacPorts (Joe's Getting Started section) III) FAQ ** MacPorts Support and Development ** I) MacPorts Internals 1) Build Phases II) Making Portfiles (or Portfile examples if that is too challenging) III) MacPorts Guide (enhanced legacy guide) IV) New Committer's Guide V) Developer FAQ VI) Legacy Site, Docs, etc ----------------------------------------
Where would you place pages like the GNOME page? On 8 Oct 2006, at 22:12, Mark Duling wrote:
I added a page to the Wiki to more or less comprehensively cover MacPorts installation: Installiing MacPorts, X11, setting the shell. Right now it is OS X 10.4 only. Comments are welcome.
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/InstallingMacPorts
I'd like to delete the ManuallySettingShell at the top-level since it isn't needed anymore. I also propose the structure as shown below for the Wiki. I think the current structure needs improvement.
Mark
-------------------------------------- ** MacPorts Starting Points **
I) Home Page II) Getting Your Mac Ready for MacPorts 1) Install Xcode Tools 2) Install the MacPorts Binary 3) Installing X11 and setting the shell (optional)
II) Using MacPorts (Joe's Getting Started section) III) FAQ
** MacPorts Support and Development **
I) MacPorts Internals 1) Build Phases II) Making Portfiles (or Portfile examples if that is too challenging) III) MacPorts Guide (enhanced legacy guide) IV) New Committer's Guide V) Developer FAQ VI) Legacy Site, Docs, etc ----------------------------------------
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Randall Wood rhwood@mac.com "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest is just philosophy."
Randall Wood <rhwood@mac.com> on Monday, October 9, 2006 at 2:07 AM -0800 wrote:
Where would you place pages like the GNOME page?
I typed up that structure when there was no Gnome section. Well the main change I've proposed is changing the main division of the categories from: 1) MacPorts Starting Points (where the meaning of "Starting Points" isn't clear) 2) MacPorts Support and Development (where the meaning of "support" isn't clear) to 1) MacPorts Starting Points (where "Starting Points" or a similar word means introductory and usage info) 2) MacPorts Development (where "Support" is dropped because it is all support, and "Development" means creating MacPorts content) If that were agreed to, then since it seems to me your Gnome section focuses on using Gnome, then it would go under section 1. How does that strike you? But whether or not my idea of sections is correct, I think the ambiguities in the current divisions are problematic. Until the division is more clear I think it is difficult to tell where some new things we need should go and the page will get confusing and/or cluttered. There are no doubt other ways to organize the content and if someone else has a better idea of how to divide the information that would be fine. I just find the way it is now confusing. Mark
On 8 Oct 2006, at 22:12, Mark Duling wrote:
I added a page to the Wiki to more or less comprehensively cover MacPorts installation: Installiing MacPorts, X11, setting the shell. Right now it is OS X 10.4 only. Comments are welcome.
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/InstallingMacPorts
I'd like to delete the ManuallySettingShell at the top-level since it isn't needed anymore. I also propose the structure as shown below for the Wiki. I think the current structure needs improvement.
Mark
-------------------------------------- ** MacPorts Starting Points **
I) Home Page II) Getting Your Mac Ready for MacPorts 1) Install Xcode Tools 2) Install the MacPorts Binary 3) Installing X11 and setting the shell (optional)
II) Using MacPorts (Joe's Getting Started section) III) FAQ
** MacPorts Support and Development **
I) MacPorts Internals 1) Build Phases II) Making Portfiles (or Portfile examples if that is too challenging) III) MacPorts Guide (enhanced legacy guide) IV) New Committer's Guide V) Developer FAQ VI) Legacy Site, Docs, etc
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