[86795] users/cal/ports

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sat Nov 5 17:59:29 PDT 2011


On 2011-11-5 04:40 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
> On Nov 4, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Clemens Lang wrote:
> 
>> Maybe we could write a wizard to start off a Portfile, e.g. by asking a couple
>> of questions, determining checksums, setting maintainers, all the stuff
>> you do over and over when creating ports.
> 
> +1
> 
> Or a spec file to start a port with. A stub port that installs nothing but has all the mandatory (lint) items declared and possibly comments with things like available Licenses.

Well it's not as fancy as what's been described in this thread, but this
is a good start:

<https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/portfile-gen/>

- Josh


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