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Subject: Re: Ports README changes committed (Proposal 6)
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * > I just committed changes necessary to generate ports' README.html
 * > files automatically.  You will need the latest version of
 * 
 * Looks and works really GREAT !!!!

Glad to hear that! :)

 * > For all this to look great, we will need pkg/COMMENT and pkg/DESCR for
 * > every subdirectory, as well as a (much) better /usr/ports/pkg/DESCR.
 * 
 * A more html conform "good looking" solution ?!

Well, I mean better description.  Of course, if it can be made to look 
better, that's fine too.

 * LANG?=		us
 * TEMPLATES?=	${PORTSDIR}/templates/${LANG}
 * 
 * I think this idea is straightforward ;-) What do you think ?!
 * If you like, I could try to give you the German templates...
 * I'd start with this if you are interested and give me your ok ;-)

This is a great idea, but we may want to use standard (ISO-something)
LANG names so that the user who has it set for normal operation will
automatically get this one.

If we really want to push this, we can even put the generated READMEs
in a subdirectory so that any user will have all of them right off the
bat, but I guess that's too much.  Having the ability to "make readmes
LANG=polish" and slap the result on a Polish CDROM or have an mirror
site run this for the users in that country would be good enough, I
think.

Thanks for your comments!

Satoshi