--- mel <mel@hackinthebox.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Macports (and mac os x) newbie here.
Just finishing off my first ones as well, so hopefully I can be of some help.
I'm trying my hands at writing portfile, just a few questions:
1) Besides the NewCommittersGuide, is there any other documents that I can use as a guide, such as 'Port Author's Guide' which lay out things like quality, ensuring that portfiles aren't broken, consistency, etc?
Check out the old darwinports site. In particular: http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/docs/ch03s02.html was quite helpful for me.
2) When developing my own portfile, how do I go about setting my own 'development' environment? I.e. I don't want to clutter the current port tree, and I want to be able to remove/install ports easily.
Just create a directory anywhere you want (I have ~/dp). Then put whatever port your going for in a directory under that. This is where you can put your Portfile. For starting development, just doing 'sudo port -d -v command' will run the Portfile in the current directory. So, this way is a fairly good way of doing testing/development/etc. Or at least the way I've been doing mine ;) At any rate, that should get you started. Good luck :) best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/