Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Jarmo Hurri
Greetings. I would like to switch from Linux to FreeBSD, but am puzzled by the timeliness of the ports. In particular, I use a drawing program called asymptote quite heavily in my work. From the ports page I noticed that the ports version is approximately 14 months old:

Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Jarmo Hurri
Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org writes: 2. Try to become a maintainer. How? Step one would be to try bringing the port up to date yourself, sometimes it is as easy as editing the Makefile, changing the version and running make makesum to update the checksums. Sometimes the

Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Jarmo Hurri
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes: Have you tested Debian's FreeBSD port? Debian GNU/kFreeBSD perhaps does provide a more current user space. https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD Hmm, I think I would prefer a distribution with a relatively large user base. The Wikipedia