On Feb 16, 2008, at 05:41, David Bruce wrote: > I'm the upstream maintainer of tuxmath, and I also want to add it > to MacPorts > and become the port maintainer for it. So, regarding checksums, I > take it > that it would be best (from the point of view of MacPorts, and > probably > anyone else who cares to verify that they are getting unaltered > source) to > generate all three hashes and provide them at the tuxmath download > site? > > I'm just learning, but it seems the port process involves three > things: > 1. writing a working Portfile. > 2. adapting the source, if needed, to get it to build properly > under the port > system. Since I'll be both port maintainer and upstream, I don't > think this > will need to involve patches. > 3. making the download site play nicely with MacPorts, which could > be things > like providing the three checksums and making it possible for ports > to check > if a new version has been released. > > I submitted a trac ticket with the first draft Portfile (#14279), > and it still > seems to be in limbo. Is there something else I'm supposed to be > doing? I > really would like to contribute to this project.
Rainer has commented on your ticket so once you review those changes I imagine he'll commit it. I saw your earlier message but did not have time to deal with it. Sometimes we're just short on time and tickets get forgotten. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev