ports/152152: math/polymake: Port upgrade request

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

The following reply was made to PR ports/152152; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at missouri.edu>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, ewgenij.gawrilow at o2online.de
Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/152152: math/polymake: Port upgrade request
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:56:48 -0500

 Hi Ewgenij,
 
 I built polymake-2.9.9 last night, and it looks like a really nice 
 program.  I am a brand new ports committer, and I would like to go ahead 
 and commit your changes.  But being brand new, I am required to get 
 approval from mentors before I commit changes.
 
 In the meantime, I have some questions about your program.
 
 1.  When I first run the program, I get a message "Unquoted string "v" 
 may clash with future reserved word at (eval 583) line 2."  This only 
 seems to happen when the program creates .polymake.  Maybe this isn't a 
 big deal.
 
 2.  When I tried to view an object, the program used "gv" to produce the 
 image.  I got the impression from the documentation that the program was 
 meant to use "javaview" and that maybe I could rotate the object from 
 the screen.  I am using diablo-jdk16 for java - could this be part of 
 the reason, or is it something else?  I must admit that I have only 
 tried the short code segments that appear in your introductionary tutoral.
 
 3.  In the port Makefile, you only have one MASTER_SITE.  The FreeBSD 
 people prefer at least two.  Are there any mirrors of this software?
 
 Finally, I see on your web page that there is a version 2.10 that has 
 come out.  I look forward to seeing this update submitted soon.  (But 
 let me commit version 2.9.9 first.)
 
 Stephen