> On Oct 12, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Bruce Miller <bruce.mil...@nist.gov> wrote: > > On 10/09/2016 09:53 AM, Marcel Bischoff wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> As Ryan has identified that the online documentation needs work, > > I would applaud this, while acknowledging that it will be a lot > of work. > > To pick up on a comment from another thread: > Although I tend to program Perl like lisp, I might > program Tcl like fortran, since it seems to > me very much like fortran, or even cobol.
That's interesting. I've found Tcl to have interesting functional properties, so I tend to write it pretty Lisp-y, for better or worse. Not sure what this says about Tcl. Nothing good, I expect. > There's a *lot* of stuff in MacPorts, but much > isn't documented well, or at all. If I find example > portfiles doing similar things, they use magic that > I can't find explained anywhere. An Index of commands > would be very useful. And also PortGroups are very > powerful I think, I had particular needs from the > Perl & TeX groups. But: even reading the code, it > wasn't completely clear what functionality they > provided and what they didn't, and how best to use them. I agree that our portgroup documentation is especially weak. vq _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
