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

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Feb 10 12:45:09 PST 2008


On Feb 10, 2008, at 12:24, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

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

I don't know a thing about FreeBSD ports, so my suggestion would be  
to start by reading the guide:

http://guide.macports.org/

And look at the source of the existing portfiles, to see how things  
are done. There are thousands to choose from.



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