Why no MovableType port?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 13:01:03 -0500, Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:

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> Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> | I wanted to start playing with MovableType and was surprised that there
> | is no port for it.  Of course I'm talking about the Open Source  
> version.
> |
> | If this were some obscure bit of software that few people had an
> | interested in running, I would expect the answer to my question to be
> | something like "because you haven't made a port for it yet".
> |
> | Now I should point out that I've only written one port in life (and it
> | was very simple one for a perl module).  I should also point out that I
> | am unfamiliar with MovableType or any other web CMS.  So other than the
> | fact that I wanted to evaluate MovableType, I consider myself not  
> really
> | in a position to produce a port.
> |
> | I was wondering if people have tried and failed to produce port for
> | this, or whether someone is working on it, or whether there is some
> | licensing difficulty that I'm unaware of.
>
> www/MT

Interesting.. Wondering why not rename it as www/movabletype? A lot of  
people have no idea what 'MT' is and the 'movabletype' will get hit in  
search engine a lot faster.

Cheers,
Mezz

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