gtkam - How to request a port?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 02:31, jayseye wrote:

> I'd like to request that the gtkam program be ported to MacPorts:
>
>   http://www.gphoto.org/proj/gtkam/
>
> This is a GTK-based, GUI front-end to libgphoto2 and gphoto2, both  
> of which I've successfully installed under Leopard, using  
> DarwinPorts. I later found that these packages are both available  
> in MacPorts.

Yes... MacPorts used to be called DarwinPorts...


> These programs allow using a wide variety of digital cameras which  
> are otherwise unsupported.
>
> Download of gtkam 0.1.14 is available from:
>
>    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8874
>
> Is this list the proper venue for the request?

You should file a port request ticket in the issue tracker:

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

The best way to get a port added is to write the port yourself. The  
guide also explains how to write ports.