Hello folks, The netcdf port seems orphaned: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports/ science/netcdf/Portfile As per http://metadir.andrew.cmu.edu/mailsearch.html the previous maintainer is no longer affiliated with CMU. I'll see if I can follow up more tomorrow. The reason I'm asking is because I need the fortran interface for a user's code, and perhaps later plug in more recent versions. I managed to locally add a variant "+ifort" using "port edit", which relies on the Intel Fortran compiler, and the package's regression test "make test" passes, explicitly verifying the fortran interface as well. Now for the bleeding newbie questions: Q1: Is it OK to use a commercial compiler? Q2: What's the canonical way to express that? - note dependency (if any)? - note compiler version? (ifc7, ifc8, and ifort9 are notably different) Q3: Where do I submit a patch to a non-maintainer? If I go to: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/report and click on the big "New Ticket" (not obvious as a link, BTW), I get: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/newticket Permission Denied TICKET_CREATE privileges are required to perform this operation Has the dust settled since the DarwinPorts migration? Seems some of the docs are not yet migrated. Any help appreciated - I mean, I'd like to push my patch upstream, so I get the benefit on other hosts without creating my own patch management system ;-) Regards, Michael