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

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Feb 10, 2008, at 4:41 AM, David Bruce wrote:

> 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.

I think you'd find no disagreement on this point!

> (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?)

Sure - a lot of folks refer to other ports collections as a good way  
of getting a rough idea of what the dependencies are, where to fetch  
the bits, etc.  You could certainly do a lot worse.

> 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?

Both!   Welcome.

- Jordan