On Apr 24, 2013, at 20:57, Leo Singer <[email protected]> wrote:

> To follow up on this, a final draft of the slides can be found at:
> 
> https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-G1300396-v7/public
> 
> I would be very grateful for any suggestions or feedback.

My first thought was that if your audience is people interested in using 
HTCondor on Macs, who may not know about MacPorts, or who may only know about 
MacPorts in an end user capacity, you may be able to simplify or remove the 
"challenging port" slides. While I'm sure the port was challenging and it was 
fascinating for you as a portfile developer to overcome those challenges, end 
users may not care, and probably just want to use the port to install the 
software. You could summarize those slides by saying that building HTCondor was 
challenging, and what you learned about building it is encoded into the 
Portfile so that everyone else can just install it without having to understand 
it or figure it out themselves. Later you ask for help improving the port, and 
for those interested in that, you can invite them to read the Portfile and 
contact you with any questions about what it does or maybe point them to the 
MacPorts mailing lists if they want to help out. But maybe part of the
  point of the "challenging port" slides is to point out to the HTCondor people 
some portability problems in their build process which you'd like them to 
resolve, in which case it's not a bad idea to give those issues some publicity.


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