Portfile Workflow Advice

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Jan 15, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Sean Farley <sean at macports.org> wrote:

> 2) Patch review? Sometimes I have questions on how to do a particular
> task (i.e. best practice for "extracting" a script that isn't zipped?)
> but can't figure it out by looking at other portfiles mostly due to
> the fact that it's not commonly done. I could send an email to the dev
> mailing list asking the quesetion, just commit the portfile and hope
> that someone points out a better way, send a patch to the mailing
> list, or submit a Trac ticket. Over the last year of so of lurking, I
> haven't quite seen a uniform practice set, so any feedback is much
> appreciated.

Not sure there's really a best practice for this. I like to ask the dev list first; that's what it's for, after all.

vq