DarwinPorts project announces New Hosting and New Name

DarwinPorts project announces New Hosting and New Name

DarwinPorts project announced today its intention to accept hosting  
for the DarwinPorts project through the new Mac OS Forge facility  
being set up by Apple Computer at www.macosforge.org. This follows  
news that opendarwin.org, the project's current hosting provider,  
will be shut down in the coming months.

James Berry, a member of the DarwinPorts steering committee says: "We  
are pleased that by offering us hosting and administrative support  
services, Apple continues to demonstrate its strong commitment to the  
open source community. That support is vital to our project."

As part of the transition to Mac OS Forge, the DarwinPorts project  
will adopt the new name MacPorts, utilizing the macports.org domain,  
which it recently acquired. "We believe the new name MacPorts better  
reflects our mission, which is to provide a collection of open source  
ports for Mac OS X, with future support for binary packages", says  
Juan Manuel Palacios, another DarwinPorts member.

Members of the DarwinPorts/MacPorts project and portmgr team will  
work with opendarwin.org and Mac OS Forge to effect a smooth  
transition over the coming weeks.