request for port create command, to build a portfile from a URL

[db]

On 7 Mar 2018, at 01:53, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> On 2018-03-06 23:00, db wrote:
>> [...] an *overview* of how to write a portfile is much needed.
> Isn't this what this chapter in the guide is supposed to provide?
> https://guide.macports.org/#development

Yes, supposed. When you're in it's difficult to say, but AFAIR I was probably trying to write a portfile for something hosted on GitHub without knowing about the relative portgroup and its documentation being buried somewhere under the prefix in the tcl file itself.