Request process for ports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 8, 2008, at 05:53, Joe Schnide wrote:

> I'm not sure of what the process is for requesting ports. If there is
> an officail process, please provide a pointer to the document  
> detailing
> the process.

The best thing to do is file a ticket in our issue tracker for each  
port. Set the Type to "enhancement" and the Milestone to "Port  
Requests".

Here are instructions for filing tickets:

http://guide.macports.org/#project

The best way to get ports added is to write them yourself.  
Instructions for writing portfiles are in the guide too:

http://guide.macports.org/

You can also learn how to write portfiles by reading the existing  
portfiles.


> The ports I'd like to request are:
>
> bwctl
> command line client application and a scheduling and policy daemon  
> that
> wraps Iperf
> http://e2epi.internet2.edu/bwctl/
>
> mturoute
> check the mtu values between you and a host
> http://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/mturoute.php
>
> npad Pathdiag
> http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/pathdiag/
>
> OWAMP
> command line client application and a policy daemon used to  
> determine one
> way latencies between hosts
> http://e2epi.internet2.edu/owamp/
>
> thrulay is used to measure the capacity of a network by sending a
> bulk TCP stream over it
> Like other tools (such as iperf, netperf, nettest, nuttcp, ttcp,  
> etc.),
> thrulay can report  TCP throughput periodically so that TCP  
> performance
> plots can be produced. Unlike other tools, thrulay not only reports
> goodput, but round-trip delay time as well. The output of thrulay
> is easy to parse by machine (in fact, it's ready to be used as a data
> file for gnuplot).
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/thrulay/
> http://e2epi.internet2.edu/thrulay/
>
> dhcptool
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/dhcptool/
>
> openlldp
> http://openlldp.sourceforge.net/
>
> Please let me know if I can provide further information.