submitting a new port, sort of

[Elwood Downey]

Hello!

Although I have been a happy user of macports since, I dunno, 2010 maybe
(whenever Panther or Leopard came out), I've never submitted a port myself.
And I eschew that *brew* thing so that was never an option for me.

I skimmed your instructions for submitting a new port but 1) I do not have
and do not want a github account and 2) I am super lazy when it comes to
systemy things, I only enjoy programming.

So on the outside chance someone else would be willing to do it all for me,
I hereby humbly submit my amateur radio program HamClock
<https://clearskyinstitute.com/ham/HamClock> for consideration as a new
port.

I grabbed an example Portfile and filled in a few fields, the result is
pasted below. The only dependencies are Xcode command line tools and
Xquartz for X11 libs and an X server, nothing else. Otherwise it's an
ordinary g++ program built with *make* and installed with the usual *sudo
make install*. Should be very easy :-)

I don't want to be the maintainer either (!) but the program doesn't really
need one because it's entirely self-updating. Anyone installing an ancient
version via macports will be able to upgrade to the latest with just two
clicks within the program itself. The version on macports can stay the same
forever.

My purpose in writing is that there are now about 10,000 HamClock users on
all manner of UNIX-like systems but only about 10 on macOS. I am just
hoping that providing a macports starting point for folks might bump that
fraction up a bit.

Well, there it is. If I'm way off base here, I understand completely and
apologize for taking your time.

Cheers, and thanks for reading,

Elwood Downey
Tucson AZ


name                hamclock
version             4.18
categories          amateur radio
platforms           darwin
license             MIT
maintainers         Elwood Downey, ecdowney at clearskyinstitute.com
description         provides useful data for amateur radio operators
long_description    HamClock is a kiosk-style application that provides
real time space weather, radio propagation models, operating events and
other information particularly useful to the radio amateur.
homepage            https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ham/HamClock
master_sites
https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ham/HamClock/ESPHamClock.tgz
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