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On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:58:32 -0700
Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> wrote:

> Mathias,  I think that brief description of how you did this would be 
> VERY useful to some of us looking at this problem and not knowing
> where to start.  Perhaps an:  'this is the way it was' and a 'this is
> the way it should be' document would be good.  Or even a list of
> links to 'helpful hints' documents.

Looking at already-done ports is good.

Someone has kindly done one of mine for me so I did a diff on that.
Pretty simple example but gives you the idea.

FWIW, the port in question is textproc/ml1