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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:10:39 +0100
From:      Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
To:        Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>
Cc:        Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about creating a port for saga gis
Message-ID:  <4AFFC58F.8020603@gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200911150835.nAF8ZJxi011229@mp.cs.niu.edu>
References:  <200911150835.nAF8ZJxi011229@mp.cs.niu.edu>

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On 15.11.2009 09:35 (UTC+1), Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:41:58 +0100 Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
> wrote:
>> I am working on a new port math/saga. It is my first port.
>>
>> Now that I am able to directly download the sources of SAGA GIS from 
>> sourceforge (thanks to Eygene Ryabinkin and Sergey V. Dyatko), there is 
>> another problem with porting where I need some help.
>>
>> The original configure script of SAGA GIS expects 'wx-config', but in 
>> newer FreeBSD systems there only is e.g. wxgtk2-2.8-config.
>>
>> The porters handbook shows how to configure the ports Makefile to let 
>> the port know what wxWidget version to use. I patched the original 
>> configure script but obviously that's not enough. The attached files are 
>> saved under math/saga and show what I have tried.
>>
>      Why are you putting saga into math?  It should be in databases, like
> grass and postgis are, or conceivably in science.  I don't see any reason
> for it to be in math.

For me SAGA is clearly a mathematical application. In the porters 
handbook you can read at chapter 5.3.2 for 'science' category:

"Scientific ports that do not fit into other categories such as astro, 
biology and math."

So I chose 'math'.

Rainer Hurling



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