Projects :: DarwinPorts

Project Leads: Landon Fuller, Jordan Hubbard, Kevin Van Vechten

The DarwinPorts project aims to provide a large amount of software ports that make it easy to install freely available software on a Darwin system. For more information, please read the FAQ. For a tutorial on writing a Portfile, please read the Portfile HOWTO.

Project Status

Still progressing towards initial release on September 25th, 2002. A number of ports are done and the system is reasonably usable as a BETA for anyone who's interested.

Getting the project from CVS

Use the following commands to get the project from the OpenDarwin CVS server:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.opendarwin.org:/Volumes/src/cvs/od login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.opendarwin.org:/Volumes/src/cvs/od co -P darwinports
When the server asks you for a password you can simply hit return; the password is empty.

Project mailing lists and IRC channels

The darwinports mailing list is open to all and is where most architectural and feature discussions are held. Those wishing to see the cvs commit logs which detail the change-by-change progress of the project can also subscribe to the cvs-darwinports-all mailing list.

For more real-time discussion, the #opendarwin channel on the open projects network is generally where we hang out.

Joining the project

We are looking for people who would like to help to make this project a success. There are still many parts of the project that need work, including: documentation, making ports, maintaining ports and testing.

All contributions are very much welcomed! If you are interested, then can either send an e-mail to one of the project leads asking what needs to be done or simply submit an application to join the project with this form. Thanks!