Geant4 - outdated and not maintained

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

Have you tried updating the Portfile yourself ? looking at

https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/science/geant4/Portfile

if you are lucky it maybe just be a case of updating the geant4 version 
and data file versions, as per

http://geant4.cern.ch/support/download.shtml

If it works you could submit an update yourself. I believe if a 
maintainer remains unresponsive for some time, someone else could then 
submit it for you.

Regarding having multiple versions, one thing you would have to decide 
would be if you would want to allow for more than one version to be 
installed at once, and looking at the Portfile I can see at least a few 
things that wouldn't work now.

Chris

On 30/10/12 13:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The maintainer of Geant4 doesn't respond to any of my emails or any ticket.
>
> I would like to see Geant4 upgraded to 9.5 and I would like to create
> and maintain a port for Gate 6.2. I have a working CMake-based port
> for Geant4 9.5, but it still needs some work to support all the
> options that are currently supported in 9.4.
>
> I have a meeting with one of the developers of Gate on Thursday. I
> hope that he will help me resolve some problems I have with building
> the current version of Gate (no developer uses Mac OS X, so support is
> very limited). The latest version of Gate depends on Geant4 9.5, so I
> really need the latest version if I want to create a port for Gate.
>
> My questions are:
> - Is anyone else willing to take over maintenance of Geant4?
> - Would it be acceptable to have versioned Geant4 ports and if so -
> how many versions would be acceptable? Would it be ok to have support
> for 4.9.4, 4.9.5 and 4.9.6? The last one is experimental and the
> versions are not really compatible with each other. The version 4 in
> Geant4 is really a different program from Geant3. So the numbering is
> actually 9.4, 9.5 and 9.6. Physicists usually need a very specific
> version to run their applications. (There is one additional number,
> for example 4.9.5.p02 to denote patchlevel 2 - something that can
> safely be upgraded without the need for a special version.)
>
> Mojca
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