I want to contribute ports for tuxmath and tuxtype (eventually)

[David Bruce]

Hi,

I'm the current lead programmer/maintainer for two educational kids 
games, "Tux, Of Math Command" (basic math drill) and "Tux Typing" (learning 
to type).  Both are GPL free software with autotools-based builds, and all of 
the needed libs (SDL and friends, gettext) are already in MacPorts.

I'm new to the Mac.  Tuxmath builds and installs correctly with "./configure; 
make; sudo make install" and runs fine on our new Leopard Intel iMac.  I 
initially found your project while trying to figure out a straightforward way 
to get universal builds of the needed libs onto my system - I'm in the 
process of learning to make a universal package.

The first snag is that my program depends on SDL_image, and thus on smpeg, 
whose universal build currently fails, but I see there is already a bug on 
this from just a couple of days ago: 

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14174

It seems to me that what I should *really* do is to learn about your ports 
system, get my program set up for it and contribute it to MacPorts.

(fwiw, I understand that tuxmath is in the FreeBSD ports collection, although 
I am not involved with it - I assume studying the FreeBSD port of my project 
would be a good starting point?)

Also, is this list just for development of the port infrastructure itself, or 
is it also the place for help with individual ports by "client" programmers 
like me?

Cheers,

 -- 
David Bruce