Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of MacPortsHistory


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Jun 21, 2014, 6:22:13 AM (10 years ago)
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    55!DarwinPorts began as part of Apple's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDarwin OpenDarwin] effort, which was set up to provide an interface between Apple's developers and the open-source community. The !DarwinPorts web site was initially located at darwinports.opendarwin.org. In 2003 the project acquired its own domain, darwinports.org; both darwinports.opendarwin.org and www.darwinports.org continued to be used interchangeably for several years.
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    7 Someone not affiliated with the project registered the domain darwinports .com in 2004 and started a competing web site there. This matter is discussed in DarwinPortsFraud.
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    9 In 2006 the !OpenDarwin project as a whole was shut down, and !DarwinPorts needed a new home. Apple set up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_Forge Mac OS Forge] to host Mac-related open-source projects, and the !DarwinPorts project accepted Apple's offer to be hosted there. In addition, in part to distance itself from the aforementioned fraudulent website, and in part to better reflect the project's focus on Mac OS X, the project's name was [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.opendarwin.darwinports/18725 changed to MacPorts] and the web site was moved to www.macports.org. The old address www.darwinports.org continues to redirect there. The MacPorts project also owns www.macports.com and www.macports.net.
     7In 2006 the !OpenDarwin project as a whole was shut down, and !DarwinPorts needed a new home. Apple set up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_Forge Mac OS Forge] to host Mac-related open-source projects, and the !DarwinPorts project accepted Apple's offer to be hosted there. In addition, in part to distance itself from a third party website that was confusing and misleading users (see DarwinPortsDotCom), and in part to better reflect the project's focus on Mac OS X, the project's name was [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.opendarwin.darwinports/18725 changed to MacPorts] and the web site was moved to www.macports.org. The old address www.darwinports.org continues to redirect there. The MacPorts project also owns www.macports.com and www.macports.net.