Hi Rishab, Welcome to The MacPorts Project!
On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 3:13 PM rishab lamba <rishablamba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Sir/ Ma'am, > I am Rishab Lamba pursuing my B.Tech from BVCOE, Delhi. I got to know about > MacPorts from the GSoC program and wish to learn to contribute to its > platform. I have read the MacPorts Guide and have made myself comfortable > using the environment but am still a little ambiguous of how to contribute to > the source code. > So if you could help me how and where to start from, what is the knowledge > base or the prerequisites that would be required from me? I would really appreciate any help or guidance that I could get > Good to hear that you have gone through the macports guide and familiarised yourself. Have you installed macports on your machine ? Also, do you have a mac machine or linux machine? You can either start with contributing to the core behind macports i.e., macports-base[1] or add/update existing portfiles i.e., macports-ports[2]. To get started with contributing to macports-base, we have an introductory video[3] which will explain about the codebase very well. To jump into creating or working on existing portfile, our guide on portfile development[4] is a good starting point. You may also read existing portfile in our macports-ports repository[2]. Hope this gets you started and help in making your first contribution to MacPorts :) Links: [1] https://github.com/macports/macports-base/ [2] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qshiDskrM [4] https://guide.macports.org/#development -- Jackson Isaac
