<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Mar 18, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Eric A. Borisch <<a href="mailto:eborisch@macports.org">eborisch@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>However, perhaps we should take a page from their book. Look at the homebrew homepage (<a href="http://brew.sh/">http://brew.sh/</a>)</div>
<div><br></div><div> * It would be nice a similar minimalist, "here is what macports does for you" landing page.</div><div> * A one line copy-and-paste install option to get a new user going would be nice, too. It could check for and prompt the user for XCode, etc before actually installing. I assume this is what theirs does.</div>
<div> * A simple 'port create <url>' that would create a "typical" Portfile (configure / make / make install) in a auto-generated local location (and properly setup sources.conf) and then open the new portfile in Editor (perhaps with some helpful comments on things that might need tweaking)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I personally think this is a great idea. Not that I am in a position to enact such an idea :-)</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div>I also don't think we've done enough to publicize the phenomenal impact the build bots have on a "typical install scenario" -- and to emphasize the "you need to use the defaults" if you want binary package usage.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed.</div></div><br><div>-landonf</div></body></html>