port science/paraview

[Philipp Ost]

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
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