Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:36:47 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port science/paraview Message-ID: <4A8AD89F.5050600@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090818154751.GA1930@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090818154751.GA1930@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > port science/paraview is far behind the current version. > > I do understand that nobody really takes care of it, > so please do not see this as a request. I'm grateful > that somebody has created this port at all! > > I'd like to help but I've never done any serious > port work, just occasional patches. > What is your estimate of the amount of work, and of > skills required to bring this port up to date? > > many thanks > In my experience, you usually cannot tell how hard it is going to be until you try. But quite often, the process of updating a port is not that hard. Certainly you don't necessarily have to understand how everything works to do this. Try changing the version number in the port, do a "make makesum" to download the source and make the distinfo file, and then do a "make" and see what happens. Quite likely you will need to remove some of the patches from the directory "files" - do this on a "try it and see" basis. The one file that will almost certainly need updating is "pkg-plist." I really do recommend you just try to update the port yourself, and see if you can do it.
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