creating ports - howto

[markd at macports.org]

"Bakki Kudva" <bakki.kudva at gmail.com> writes:
>Where is the documentation on how to create ports? I sort of have an
>idea by looking in existing port files etc but is there a canonical
>doc on this? I need the port wv which is broken. There is no
>maintainer for it so I thought I'd roll my own.
>
>Thanks for any pointers,

The new guide is a work in progress, but it is here:
http://geeklair.net/new_macports_guide/

The old guide is here:  http://geeklair.net/macports_guide/

That's the best we have right now.  I just installed the wv port; what it
theproblem with it?

Mark