Re: Alternate way to submit new ports

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 15:04:58 +1000
Ian McWilliam <ian%web.com.au@localhost> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>       Ok, so I'm a newbie. Go easy. Having recently decided upon pkgsrc for  
> my third party package needs on Mac OS X, I have ported the following  
> Perl5 modules I require for my development environment to the pkgsrc  
> environment.
> 
> Having so many new ports that depend upon each other, and not yet  
> being in tree, sending in each one as per the pkgsrc documentation via  
> send bug doesn't seem to be the best way IMHO, as  I can see  
> developers complaining that "this port depends on a non existent  
> port".. blah..blah.
> 
> Is there another way that somebody would like to take these off my  
> hands?
> 
> Existing
> -------------
> devel/p5-Test-Harness -> Modified to ver 3.10
> 
> (Yes I'll contact the maintainer about this one.)
> 
> New
> ----------
> devel/p5-Class-ISA
> devel/p5-Module-Load
> devel/p5-Module-Loaded
> devel/p5-Tie-Sub
> 
> graphics/p5-Color-Calc
> graphics/p5-Color-Library
> graphics/p5-Graphics-ColorName
> graphics/p5-Graphics-ColorName-WWW
> 
> security/p5-Authen-Captcha
> security/p5-GD-SecurityImage
> security/p5-GD-SecurityImage-AC
> 
> textproc/p5-PDF-Writer
> textproc/p5-Lingua-PT-Stemmer
> textproc/p5-Lingua-Stem
> textproc/p5-Lingua-Stem-Fr
> textproc/p5-Lingua-Stem-It
> textproc/p5-Lingua-Stem-Ru
> textproc/p5-Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da
> textproc/p5-Lingua-Stem-Snowball-No
> textproc/p5-Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Se
> textproc/p5-Search-QueryParser
> textproc/p5-Text-German
> 
> www/p5-Apache-HTpasswd
> www/p5-CGI-Application-Plugin-Authentication
> www/p5-CGI-Application-Plugin-FillInForm
> www/p5-CGI-Application-Plugin-Redirect
> www/p5-CGI-Application-Plugin-Session
> www/p5-HTML-Highlight
> www/p5-HTML-TagCloud
> www/p5-HTML-Template-Expr
> 
> More in the works..........

Hi,

At least a subset of these have alrady been packaged in pkgsrc-wip[1].
I would suggest that you sign up for a wip account and help
maintain the packages there as well as import the missing ones.
Pkgsrc-wip add a new category wip/ to your existing pkgsrc tree.

Cheers,
-Tobias

[1] http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/