I'll forgive the snarkiness as you were helpful, but I am new to open source
development so mercy is appreciated.

2009/7/1 Michael Dickens <[email protected]>

> On Jul 1, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Jonathan Coveney wrote:
>
>> For a school project, I'd like to help GNU radio out in some way (I'm
>> developing in OSX).  1) What is the barrier to getting a gnuradio ports
>> command? Is it simply that there is not someone to do it, or something more?
>> I feel it'd be really nice if you could just do "sudo ports install
>> gnuradio"
>>
>
> If I were interested in GNU Radio on MacPorts, I'd check their ticket
> repository to see if anyone were already working on it.  I'd probably start
> with Google < http://www.google.com/ > and "macports gnuradio"; if that
> didn't work (or, even it if did), I'd go to the MacPorts Trac <
> http://trac.macports.org/ > and search for 'gnuradio'.
>
> Doing either of these simple tasks, you'll find two tickets of interest
> (10858 and 18104), and a variety of files associated with the latter ticket
> < http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18104 >.  One of those files is a
> tarball that was submitted about 5 weeks ago with the Portfiles needed to
> support GNU Radio 3.2 on MacPorts, including (as you've written) a meta-port
> installer for "gnuradio" as well as all individual components that can be
> compiled on OSX 10.4 or 10.5 from the 3.2 tarball release (which, btw, does
> not include the qtgui).  I do not know when the MacPorts folks will get
> around to including these Portfiles in their dports' tree (that which is
> updated via 'sudo port sync'); I do know that the Portfiles work for me and
> all of the beta testers, using both OSX 10.4 and 10.5.
>
> I hope that answers your questions on this item; yes, I am being a bit
> snarky.
>
> I'll let someone else address the other item. - MLD
>
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