getting a game into the ports collection

[Wesley Shields]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:08:08PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Haroon Khalid wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am working on a game which uses Ruby,Rubygame and SDL. If this game was a
> > good demonstration of these applications and many people like it, how would
> > I go about getting information on if its possible to include this game in
> > the ports collection? Thanks
> 
> If you make it into a port, and the port works, and then you submit it, 
> I think you can pretty much guarantee that it will be accepted.

The details of the process outlined above are well documented.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html

If this doesn't cover something then you can likely find the answer in
/usr/ports/Mk/*.

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