Sharing my ports tree development notes

Mark E Anderson mark at macports.org
Tue Sep 1 19:40:27 UTC 2026


I’m interested in what the license is as well, I have an asciidoc version that I’m trying to update with how the portgroups work and bring up to date. Mostly for myself, since I’ve been trying to understand the internals better but never hurts to share.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2026, at 10:58 AM, Zero King wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sharing some notes I've written based on my experience contributing 
> to the ports tree. Source code for the notes is at 
> https://github.com/l2dy/ports-dev-notes and a generated PDF file is 
> available on https://l2dy.github.io/ports-dev-notes/ for the time being.
> 
> Regarding its license, while I intended to use the same license as 
> https://github.com/macports/macports-guide, I didn't find a license file 
> in it. Any suggestions?
> 
> Feedback and discussions, either in reply to this email or through 
> GitHub issues in my repo, are welcome!
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Zero King
> 
—Mark
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