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DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark

Posted by pudge on from the that-be-a-heap-load-of-ports dept.

Soroths writes "The DarwinPorts project just achieved a new milestone at crossing the 1000 ports mark in its quest to bring the world of Open Source Software to the Mac OS X platform. Let's give them support and check the main site for more information about the entire project, including how to join!"

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  1. Re:don't forget the unofficial mirror by sinistral · · Score: 5, Informative

    FYI, this is *not* a mirror, and it is not affiliated in anyway with the DarwinPorts project. The official website is here.

  2. Re:Good News, But by lpangelrob2 · · Score: 5, Informative
    From what I remember reading when OpenOffice 1.2 came out, and after a cursory examination of the Mac Porting Page... the answer is "Not for a long, long time."

    The decision was, in the long run, it's just not worth trying to get OpenOffice 1.x to Aqua. The development time is better spent on OpenOffice 2.0. Hey, they have better estimates on the work it takes to do that than I would. :-)

    So anyways, to actually answer the question, I quote from the site: August 18, 2003: Development of OpenOffice.org 1.x on Mac OS X has been limited to X11. All development of Quartz and Aqua versions has been postponed to OpenOffice.org 2.x with expected delivery in late 2005 to early 2006. See the timeline for details.

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    -Rob
    Marriage doesn't have to suck!
  3. An alternative.. by nadavspi · · Score: 5, Informative

    An alternative to DarwinPorts, is Fink, which uses debian tools (apt-get, dkpg).
    The package database indexing is a little screwed right now, so I can't give an exact number of packages..
    but there are at least 500 packages in stable, and at least 300 in testing (It's rising as I type this..)
    It has the usual stuff, including KDE and Gnome2.4

    1. Re:An alternative.. by nadavspi · · Score: 5, Informative
      Well, I've only used fink myself - it was bigger than Darwinports when I started using it.
      It still is, to quote MacNN (april 2003): "DarwinPorts currently has 350+ ports in its tree, while Fink has 2,300+."
      Here is also an O'Reilly review of both Darwinports and Fink. It is also from April 2003, but it does cover both systems and their advantages fairly well.

      Another interesting project (which I do not know too much about) is Metapkg, an alliance between Fink, DarwinPorts, and Gentoo established to
      "facilitate delivery of freely available software to Mac OS X."
      To quote the June 2003 announcement of Metapkg:
      While each project will continue to deliver software in their own way, the coordination between projects will:
      • accelerate the development efforts of all projects
      • avoid unwanted duplication of effort
      • improve the consistency, quality, and responsiveness of ports