[50905] trunk/dports/science

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 12, 2009, at 23:39, Adam Mercer wrote:

> I work in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the idea of this port
> is so that scientists can just install one port which installs all the
> dependencies required for developing the analysis software we use.
> Essentially its so that I can write in the instructions install the
> lscsoft-deps port instead of listing all the different ports that our
> software needs.
>
> The scientists need to check out the latest version of the software
> from the git repository and therefore need autoconf and automake to
> generate the build system, and our software uses pkg-config in order
> to find the libraries it uses. I therefore added these as run
> dependencies so that if the scientists tired to remove them port would
> produce a warning saying that they were a required dependency, which
> would not happen if these were set to build dependencies. This port is
> just an effort to make my life easier, if you can think of a better
> way to achieve this then I'd be grateful.

Ok, so this is for installing the dependencies of software for which  
there are no ports?

Do you think there will some day be ports for that software, or is  
there a reason why that wouldn't work? (closed source, ...)