Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:29:49 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: marino@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?B?xYF1a2FzeiBXxIVzaWtvd3NraQ==?= <lukasz@wasikowski.net> Subject: Re: State of the Porters' Handbook Message-ID: <526E2E8D.3020109@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <526E272D.3040607@marino.st> References: <526E234F.3090005@bsdforen.de> <526E2492.9080107@wasikowski.net> <526E2600.9010409@bsdforen.de> <526E272D.3040607@marino.st>
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On 28/10/2013 09:58, John Marino wrote: > On 10/28/2013 09:53, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> On 28/10/2013 09:47, Łukasz Wąsikowski wrote: >>> W dniu 2013-10-28 09:41, Dominic Fandrey pisze: >>> >>>> Neither staging nor license management are described in the Porters' >>>> Handbook. >>>> >>>> Why again should we bother to support it? >>>> >>>> What happened to "the feature that is not documented doesn't exist"? >>> >>> Lack of good documentation is real problem for me to convert ports to >>> staging. Porter's Handbook is seriously lagging behind recent changes - >>> staging, license management, shabang fixes, etc. >> >> If it was up for a vote, I'd vote for a feature stop until the PH >> is back in a decent condition. >> >> Kudos to the people who documented the new options framework. >> > > For all intents and purposes - licensing "feature" doesn't exist. The > same issues you are raising have been raised before. Apparently the > full licensing infrastructure is still lacking so it's in some kind of > limbo. > > However, converting to stagedir is reasonably documented here: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir That's a handfull. What about installers that hard-code directories during install? > You don't have a choice with supporting stage -- new ports without stage > aren't accepted. So that's why you have to bother. :) That doesn't sound acceptable, considering the feature isn't even mentioned in the Porters' Handbook. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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