Hi, I'm the current lead programmer/maintainer for two educational kids games, "Tux, Of Math Command" (basic math drill) and "Tux Typing" (learning to type). Both are GPL free software with autotools-based builds, and all of the needed libs (SDL and friends, gettext) are already in MacPorts. I'm new to the Mac. Tuxmath builds and installs correctly with "./configure; make; sudo make install" and runs fine on our new Leopard Intel iMac. I initially found your project while trying to figure out a straightforward way to get universal builds of the needed libs onto my system - I'm in the process of learning to make a universal package. The first snag is that my program depends on SDL_image, and thus on smpeg, whose universal build currently fails, but I see there is already a bug on this from just a couple of days ago: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14174 It seems to me that what I should *really* do is to learn about your ports system, get my program set up for it and contribute it to MacPorts. (fwiw, I understand that tuxmath is in the FreeBSD ports collection, although I am not involved with it - I assume studying the FreeBSD port of my project would be a good starting point?) Also, is this list just for development of the port infrastructure itself, or is it also the place for help with individual ports by "client" programmers like me? Cheers, -- David Bruce
On Feb 10, 2008, at 4:41 AM, David Bruce wrote:
It seems to me that what I should *really* do is to learn about your ports system, get my program set up for it and contribute it to MacPorts.
I think you'd find no disagreement on this point!
(fwiw, I understand that tuxmath is in the FreeBSD ports collection, although I am not involved with it - I assume studying the FreeBSD port of my project would be a good starting point?)
Sure - a lot of folks refer to other ports collections as a good way of getting a rough idea of what the dependencies are, where to fetch the bits, etc. You could certainly do a lot worse.
Also, is this list just for development of the port infrastructure itself, or is it also the place for help with individual ports by "client" programmers like me?
Both! Welcome. - Jordan
On Feb 10, 2008, at 12:24, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Feb 10, 2008, at 4:41 AM, David Bruce wrote:
(fwiw, I understand that tuxmath is in the FreeBSD ports collection, although I am not involved with it - I assume studying the FreeBSD port of my project would be a good starting point?)
Sure - a lot of folks refer to other ports collections as a good way of getting a rough idea of what the dependencies are, where to fetch the bits, etc. You could certainly do a lot worse.
I don't know a thing about FreeBSD ports, so my suggestion would be to start by reading the guide: http://guide.macports.org/ And look at the source of the existing portfiles, to see how things are done. There are thousands to choose from.
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