On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:10:39AM +0100, Rainer Hurling wrote: > On 15.11.2009 09:35 (UTC+1), Scott Bennett wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:41:58 +0100 Rainer Hurling <rhur...@gwdg.de> > >wrote: > >>I am working on a new port math/saga. It is my first port. > >> > >>Now that I am able to directly download the sources of SAGA GIS from > >>sourceforge (thanks to Eygene Ryabinkin and Sergey V. Dyatko), there is > >>another problem with porting where I need some help. > >> > >>The original configure script of SAGA GIS expects 'wx-config', but in > >>newer FreeBSD systems there only is e.g. wxgtk2-2.8-config. > >> > >>The porters handbook shows how to configure the ports Makefile to let > >>the port know what wxWidget version to use. I patched the original > >>configure script but obviously that's not enough. The attached files are > >>saved under math/saga and show what I have tried. > >> > > Why are you putting saga into math? It should be in databases, like > >grass and postgis are, or conceivably in science. I don't see any reason > >for it to be in math. > > For me SAGA is clearly a mathematical application. In the porters > handbook you can read at chapter 5.3.2 for 'science' category: > > "Scientific ports that do not fit into other categories such as astro, > biology and math." > > So I chose 'math'.
If I may "bikeshed", it's probably more appropriately in 'science' given that there is no 'geo' category similar to 'astro' or 'biology': http://www.saga-gis.org/saga_modules_doc/index.html It seems to be much more than a mere plotting tool, and is certainly not a math library or "laboratory" (e.g., Octave). Take a look at the types of applications in 'math' vs 'science', and it should be clear that it is general enough to belong in 'science'. Just my $0.02... Brett > > Rainer Hurling > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- B. Estrade <estr...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
