Help making a port for a (somewhat) restricted program

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Sat Mar 28 07:43:15 PDT 2009


Vitaly Magerya writes:

>  I'm creating a port for Petite Chez Scheme [1], which is a free
>  interpreter for commercial Chez Scheme, and has some licensing
>  restrictions.
>  
>  From what I understood in the license [2], user must accept it
>  before installing.  The text of the license is also distributed
>  in the tarball, so it seems appropriate to simply display the
>  license file on post-extract.
>  
>  Is there a common way to display such a file before installing?
>  I'm currently using ${PAGER} for that [3], but it's unlike any other
>  port we have.

	Look at how java/jdk-* does it.


				Robert Huff



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