package request - tn5250

[Shawn Protsman]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Shawn Protsman wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me what the official means is to request a new  
>> package? We are an iSeries shop and I'd like to use tn5250  
>> ( http://tn5250.sourceforge.net/ ) on my Mac. I use it on my SLED  
>> workstation all the time. tn5250 is in FreeBSD ports so I'd assume  
>> it wouldn't be too difficult to get it into Macports. Any  
>> suggestions?
>
> There's no real official request channel. Since macports is run by  
> volunteers in their spare time, a good bet is to do what you did  
> (post here and hope someone else is interested).
>
> The best to make it happen is to write (and maintain) the Portfile  
> yourself. It's pretty easy to do. Check out the old guide (http:// 
> geeklair.net/macports_guide/) the new guide [in progress] (http:// 
> geeklair.net/new_macports_guide) as well as the portfile man page  
> (and it often helps to look at other ports to get ideas on how to  
> do things).
>

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the info. When I can get some spare time I'll look into  
creating the port file.

--Shawn