Document github portgroup in guide

[emcrisostomo (Enrico Maria Crisostomo)]

While updating the sysutils/fswatch port, I decided to add the livecheck configuration. I searched the guide (section 5.8) to see whether there was some builtin functionality for github but the only mentions I found are referring to mirror sites (freecode.com, sourceforge.net, /code.google.com). A search came up with the following MacPorts ticket:

#53940

As suggested in this ticket, I tried to simply add the following line to the Portfile and it appears to be working fine:

livecheck.url   ${github.homepage}/releases/latest

Shouldn't the guide be updated in order to reflect this feature? I believe this is an important feature, given the relevance of Github nowadays.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Yes, the github portgroup is not documented in the guide. Yes, it should be.

For now, the only documentation for the github portgroup is in comments in the portgroup file itself​.

[emcrisostomo (Enrico Maria Crisostomo)]

Thanks you very much Ryan.

I've created the following pull request (​https://github.com/macports/macports-guide/pull/12) in order to contribute documentation of this portgroup to the macports guide. As you'll see, I've heavily used the documentation in the portgroup file itself. Since English is not my native language, please feel free to provide any feedback that you consider appropriate.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks! The PR was merged.