Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:12:50 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Tcl package -- part of existing port or new port (and if so, where)? Message-ID: <200303110512.h2B5CoCP005287@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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Thanks to help from folks here, I was able to get the PR sent in to upgrade the port I maintain (astro/gpsman) to the current version from the author: thanks! Now, this query is related, in a fashion: gpsman is written in Tcl. And it is written so that at run time, it can determine if certain facilities are available, and if so, make use of them. A new such facility is called "gpsmanshp"; it is "A Tcl Package to Read and Write Shapefiles". Quoting further from its documentation: gpsmanshp was developed for use in GPSMan, a manager of GPS receiver data, available from http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/gpsman.html.... So there are aspects of gpsmanshp that are rather tailored to its intended use with gpsman; on the other hand, it may be used by other code, and neither gpsman nor gpsmanshp actually require the presence or use of the other. They were both written by the same person, Miguel Filgueriras. And while gpsman is (as mentioned above) written in Tcl, gpsmanshp is written in C, and supplies Tcl commands. Thus, I seek advice: should I jsut revise the gpsman port to include gpsmanshp (unless the installer specifies otherwise?) or should I make gpsmanshp its own port? If the latter, where would it go? Or is there some other option that I'm overlooking? Thanks, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org I strive to make networks of computers that work. Thus, I avoid the use of Microsoft products: I am not a masochist, and I know that choices exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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