> On Oct 9, 2015, at 7:31 AM, Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org> wrote: > > On 2015-10-04 12:25, William H. Magill wrote: >> As with the “success” above, the answer appears to be with the >> Migration Instructions. The problem is that the visual queues given >> by the “command indent and boxing” are much more emphatic than the >> numbered items. i.e. the Eye overrides RTFM. > > Thank you for your input. I tried to improve the Migration wiki page. > > Please check again: > http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
I think that visually, the page is cleaner now. Changing the indenting makes a big difference. >> Step one needs to be — download and install the version of MacPorts >> appropriate to the new release found at the top of the QuickStart >> page, NOT “port -qv”! >> >> Or put another way, the instructions on the QuickStart page and the >> Migration page need to be better integrated. Step 2 in the Migration >> Procedure is the key. >> >> Maybe wording like: >> >> "Reinstall MacPorts base. After updating the development tools, >> install the base MacPorts system for your new platform, either from >> the appropriate installer (download it from the QuickStart section) >> or from source.” > > Users going to the Migration page should already be familiar with > MacPorts itself as they used it on the previous release of OS X. > I don't think they need the QuickStart anymore. This is one of those yes and no answers. Example. I have not needed to visit the MacPorts WIKI since the migration to Yosemite — I forgot. The link simply did not jump out at me. > Similarly, the numbering of the Migration Guide is somewhat >> confusing. >> >> 2.a should probably be moved to 3.a and the rest of 3 renumbered >> accordingly. > > I don't understand that. 2a was the macports.conf update, which is > closer to updating MacPorts base than reinstalling ports. I left this at > step 2. I was just trying to adjust the numbering scheme, but your solution is cleaner. > Rainer T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.11 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.11 mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
