No subject

[drt360 at mail.usask.ca]

Hi, I'm currently interested in becoming a port contributor.  I have a few
questions though.

1) Is there some list of applications that need someone to port for them somewhere?

2) I currently am working on a application that I would like to port however. 
It require the g77 compiler for fortran.  This means that g77 would have to be
installed via gcc in /usr/local/bin.  However, the program requires g77, but gcc
now labels g77-32.  Therefore, my question is this:
Should I let the application use any g77 compiler or should I require that it
uses g77-32 specifically?  I have noticed that open office requires specifically
jdk 1.3 and won't work with 1.4 at the moment, is it better to do it this way to
avoid  the port becoming incompatible with other versions of g77.  Also your
documentation does not say much about how to detect an application with an
unknown name.  I would like to check for g77* but the * symbol does not appear
to work for this env variable.  If I were to write a script to do this, it
should be invoked before the port installs the dependencies.  I currently have a
script at the pre-extract stage, but I think I want it earlier, perhaps the
pre-build_dependencies stage if there is such a thing.

3) If this is not the right place to post these questions, is there a mailing
list or something where I can do this on.  Please let me know if I should not be
posting such questions here.

Thanks for your time
Dave