Packaging groups coordinate efforts to deliver software for Mac OS X
June 20, 2003 — The Fink, Gentoo,and DarwinPorts projects are pleased to announce the formation of a cooperative development alliance forged to facilitate delivery of freely available software to Mac OS X. Under this new alliance, the projects will share information and coordinate efforts for porting software to Apple's Mac OS X and Darwin operating systems. Members of the alliance will share information using the www.metapkg.org Web site, which will provide a home for this cooperative effort.
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
For more information, please contact us at the appropriate address:
- General information:
- Metapackage Core Team, core at metapkg.org
- Press inquiries:
- Metapackage P.R., pr at metapkg.org
- Fink:
- Max Horn, fingolfin at users.sourceforge.net
- David R. Morrison, dmrrsn at users.sourceforge.net
- Benjamin Reed, rangerrick at users.sourceforge.net
- Gentoo for Mac OS X:
- Pieter Van den Abeele, pvdabeel at gentoo.org
- Daniel Robbins, drobbins at gentoo.org
- DarwinPorts:
- Port Manager, portmgr at opendarwin.org
- Landon Fuller, landonf at opendarwin.org
- Kevin Van Vechten, kevin at opendarwin.org