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MacPorts 1.8.1 now available

Posted 3 months ago

MacPorts 1.8.1 has been made available via the usual methods:

selfupdate
DMGs for 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6
a source tarball
a tag in subversion

See the email announcement for more details.

MacPorts 1.8.0 now available

Posted 4 months ago



The final release of MacPorts 1.8.0 has been made available via the usual methods:

 

selfupdate
DMGs for 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6
a source tarball
a tag in ... [More] subversion

The ChangeLog documents the full list of what has changed since 1.7.0 (which is quite a bit).

You can also read the email announcement for 1.8.0.

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MacPorts 1.8.0 release candidate 1 available

Posted 4 months ago

 

The first release candidate for 1.8.0 has now been tagged in subversion and is ready for testing, as well as DMGs and a source tarball; you can read the announcement on the macports-users list for details.

 

MacPorts 1.8.0 beta1 available

Posted 4 months ago



A beta version for 1.8.0 has been tagged in subversion and is ready for testing; you can read the announcement on the macports-users list for details.

 

Google Summer of Code 2009 - Money for students working on MacPorts!

Posted 9 months ago

Summer of Code is a annual program hold by Google to attract new developers for the open source world. You work on a open source project over the summer and earn $4500 USD.

It is a great opportunity for college students to get a real, on the ... [More] ground programming experience, work on an exciting open source project with mentoring from its developers. MacPorts has great tasks on the ideas page that could use attention, and still has slots for volunteers. Get in contact with us and apply if you are interested!

Please also spread the word if you are a MacPorts user and a friend of yours would be qualified. This is a great opportunity not just for the students, but to foster and extend the MacPorts project.

See this wiki page for more information:
  http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode

Application is still open until April 3, 19:00 UTC. For more details, just contact the macports-dev mailing list or any of the mentors. [Less]

MacPorts 1.7.1 now available

Posted 9 months ago

The MacPorts Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.7.1.
This is a bugfix release with small changes only.

Notable changes for end users:
  - port upgrade will no longer act on ports which are not ... [More] installed

Notable changes for port authors:
  - port lint no longer requires master_sites if the port does not have
    any distfiles
  - ${applications_dir} and ${frameworks_dir} are automatically created
    in the destroot
  - configure.compiler supports apple-gcc-4.2
  - New "use_7z yes" port option to allow distfiles in 7z format

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for
updating is to run:

  sudo port selfupdate

Fore new installs, there are also package installers in disk images
available for 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 (with the latter two being universal
builds). The source is available as tarballs compressed with gzip
or bzip2 in the same directory and it is also available from the
subversion tag.

You can also read the email announcement. [Less]

MacPorts 1.7.0 now available

Posted about 1 year ago

The final release of MacPorts 1.7.0 has been made available via the usual methods:

selfupdate
DMGs for 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5
a source tarball
a tag in subversion

The ChangeLog documents the full list of what has changed since 1.6.0 (which is quite a bit).

You can also read the email announcement for 1.7.0.

MacPorts 1.7.0 release candidate 1 available

Posted about 1 year ago

The first release candidate for 1.7.0 has now been tagged in subversion and is ready for testing, as well as DMGs and a source tarball; you can read the announcement on the macports-dev list for details.

MacPorts 1.7.0 beta1 available

Posted about 1 year ago

A beta version for 1.7.0 has been tagged in subversion and is ready for testing; you can read the announcement on the macports-dev list for details.

New Management

Posted about 1 year ago

As of 14 October, 2008, MacPorts has undergone a change of management.  The email announcement can be found at:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-October/011899.html

The first order of business (once ... [More] getting settled in is complete) is to put the final wraps on a 1.7.0 release and have a beta1 version out soon.  This will be a big release, as it has been quite some time since 1.6.0. There is a milestone for 1.7.0 tickets on Trac:

http://trac.macports.org/milestone/MacPorts 1.7.0

However, many other changes have been made without tickets, and the entire set of updates is in the ChangeLog:

http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/ChangeLog

It is quite a list since 1.6.0. [Less]