(First attempt to send this email failed. Hope this one works) Hello,
I was reading through the Portfile Development section of MacPorts Guide and an idea occurred to me. It has been mentioned before that having Tcl as MacPorts' base language does shy away some potential developers and port contributers / maintainers. The Basic Portfile example (or some variant of it) looks like something that could easily be typed in a plain old text file. Would it be possible to create a Tcl tool that parses Portfiles that are in for example .txt file formats? The exact format of the text in the file would probably be different from the current Tcl portfiles (and hopefully simpler as a result). That way potential port maintainers who don't know any Tcl won't shy away from contributing and maintaining ports. I myself don't know too much Tcl (but am willing to learn) and currently have my hands full with GSoC. I'll however be willing to work on such a project after summer is over if I have some help getting started. Let me know if this idea sounds feasible or if there is already such a tool out there which I didn't know about, Thanks, George. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
