Why no MovableType port?

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On May 22, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Tilman Linneweh wrote:

> On May 22, 2008, at 20:13, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

>>> 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.
>
> Well, "make search key="movabletype"" finds the port, and it has  
> been named "MT" since 5 years. I maintain it since 4 years, and this  
> is the first time someone complained. MT is the short name used all  
> over the website (like "MT Day", "MT Beta", "MT professionals", "MT  
> community", "Styles for MT ported from WordPress" etc.). So
>
> So i am not yet convinced we gain much by renaming it.

I agree.  What I would suggest is adding "MovableType" to the COMMENT  
in the Makefile.  That way psearch (and presumably other tools) will  
also find it.  This will have none of the difficulties involved with  
renaming a port.

And thanks for maintaining MT.

Cheers,

-j




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