Porting Macaulay2

[vndby]

[Mod: split off from Thread what-would-you-like-to-see-over-the-next-few-freebsd-versions.97543]

What the title says. What features (specifically ones that have not been announced yet) do you want to see in 15.x, 16.x, and beyond?

I would like to have macaulay2 (https://macaulay2.com/) ported to FreeBSD.

 

[SirDice]

I would like to have macaulay2 (https://macaulay2.com/) ported to FreeBSD.

The ports tree is primarily driven by a community effort, has nothing to do with the development of the FreeBSD OS itself. You can try porting it yourself and submit it, or find someone that can do it for you. Anyone can submit (and maintain) a port.

FreeBSD Porter's Handbook

Essential reading if you plan on providing a port of a third party piece of software

docs.freebsd.org

 

[SDK Chan]

You can try porting it yourself and submit it, or find someone that can do it for you. Anyone can submit (and maintain) a port.

Is there actually a list of volunteers who agree to port software X for you ?
If yes, I doubt the user would do it for free.

 

[SirDice]

If yes, I doubt the user would do it for free.

You'd be surprised how often this happens without any monetary gain. Lots of people like the challenge, or the fun of it.

 

[Paul Floyd]

You'd be surprised how often this happens without any monetary gain. Lots of people like the challenge, or the fun of it.

For young developers it helps to boost their CV.

One thing that I like (for small projects) is the productivity and freedom from corporate procedures - Jira, needing to get sign-off from Uncle Tom Cobley, flakey tests that never git fixed.

 

[SDK Chan]

You'd be surprised how often this happens without any monetary gain. Lots of people like the challenge, or the fun of it.

That is also true, I heard this phrase often on the dolphin-emu forum back then in 2008, 2009.

For young developers it helps to boost their CV.

The more the reason to port over things to FreeBSD.
I wonder whether the word "FreeBSD" in a CV will boost it, too.
Most of the IT userland uses generally Windows, linux, mac osx.
If I am not wrong many people consider FreeBSD users to be some kind of elitist ?

 

[Crivens]

One thing that I like (for small projects) is the productivity and freedom from corporate procedures - Jira, needing to get sign-off from Uncle Tom Cobley, flakey tests that never git fixed.

You just reminded me of a busy day where all I did was changing a + to a - in the code base. The jira/review/test/review test/... circus took a whole bleeping day.

But porting (adding to ports) that rather interesting looking software should be easy. They even now have a FreeBSD download link.
Edit Add: I stand corrected, that is a 386 version for 7.1. More work on that would be needed.

 

[SirDice]

Add: I stand corrected, that is a 386 version for 7.1. More work on that would be needed.

Yeah, seen that one. That package is ancient.

Build instructions look pretty straight-forward though, porting it might actually be really easy.

Building M2 from source using Autotools

The primary source code repository for Macaulay2, a system for computing in commutative algebra, algebraic geometry and related fields. - Macaulay2/M2

github.com

 

[T-Aoki]

That is also true, I heard this phrase often on the dolphin-emu forum back then in 2008, 2009.

Not from scratch, but I'm submitting patches for upgrading x11/nvidia-driver[|-470|-390], x11/linux-nvidia-libs[|-470|-390] and graphics/nvidia-drm*-kmod, as 100% volunteer basis (no sponsors).

And I was considering to port fcitx5 supports for mozc (seemed beyond me, though), but didn't as found that Ken Deguchi was already worked on it when I searched that no one else is already working on or not just before I actually start working on it. He's working on it as a volunteer, too. (Not submitted, as he's still thinking about what's the best way, as upstream requires bazel to build, which is quite heavy-weighted. Also, uptream codes and required data for dictionaries are updated quite often.)