The opendarwin .com debacle

[Emmanuel Hainry]

Citando Scott Haneda :
> 
> Unfortunately, no, in my research, that is not the case.  One of the
> very best things that could be done, would be for MacPorts to have
> every maintainer of every port contact the developer of that
> software, and ask for al link.
> 
> I have done this for every port I worked on.  When I finish the ASSP
> port, there will be a link.  I did the memtester port, (
> http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ ) and went to him to get a
> link.
> 
> I will be finishing the pureftpd port, and will also get the same
> linking.  What anchor text we suggest to use should be talked about,
> I am not sure that "MacPorts" is the best.  It would be a discussion
> worth having for sure.
> 

The anchor is one thing, the destination is another. Which is the page
to link from upstream webpage? I see at least 3 possibilities:
1) www.macports.org: that's what I did for mpd. There
is also a text explaining the command to install mpd from macports.
2) http://www.macports.org/ports.php and if possible the specific page
for the port. But it is not informative in any way and you cannot get a
link for some ports (mpd for example)
3) http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/audio/mpd/Portfile

None of those is both informative on the port and readable. Note that
fink has beautiful pages for each port:
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/mpd. mpd_darwinports_com also
has a page (not more interesting than the Portfile). So
who will write a Portfile_to_webpage script to have a readable and
informative page for each port? In a perfect world, this page would also
feature a link to the bugs reported against this port. Doing better than
http://packages.debian.org/sid/mpd could be a goal.

Regards,

Emmanuel
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