This is a little bit offtopic IMHO, anyway: I found surprising too that the github portgroup was not documented, given the high percentage of software that I build out of github repositories, and that's why I recently contributed the documentation of the github portgroup:
https://github.com/macports/macports-guide/pull/12 <https://github.com/macports/macports-guide/pull/12> It has been merged some days ago. Yet, I don't see it online yet. > On 7 Mar 2018, at 11:29, db <iams...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7 Mar 2018, at 01:53, Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org> wrote: >> On 2018-03-06 23:00, db wrote: >>> [...] an *overview* of how to write a portfile is much needed. >> Isn't this what this chapter in the guide is supposed to provide? >> https://guide.macports.org/#development > > Yes, supposed. When you're in it's difficult to say, but AFAIR I was probably > trying to write a portfile for something hosted on GitHub without knowing > about the relative portgroup and its documentation being buried somewhere > under the prefix in the tcl file itself.
