port science/paraview

[wen heping]

ParaView-3.6.1 require Qt4.3 or newer, there is qt-4.5.2 in FreeBSD ports
tree.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Philipp Ost <pj at smo.de> wrote:

> Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>
>> port science/paraview is far behind the current version.
>>
>> I do understand that nobody really takes care of it,
>> so please do not see this as a request. I'm grateful
>> that somebody has created this port at all!
>>
>> I'd like to help but I've never done any serious
>> port work, just occasional patches.
>> What is your estimate of the amount of work, and of
>> skills required to bring this port up to date?
>>
>
> I tried compiling a current version of ParaView outside the port
> infrastructure. I got the non-gui part compiled; the GUI needs an older
> version of Qt than actually is available in the ports tree. At this point I
> gave up -- but I have to admit that I didn't try that hard...
>
> Philipp
>