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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:18:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        Q <qdolan@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Appropriate way of submitting multiple related ports at once?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710191917070.42217@qbhto.arg>
In-Reply-To: <20071019222405.GJ3366@k7.mavetju>
References:  <2365F582-9CA6-4E21-AF82-42791A2F8E10@gmail.com> <20071019222405.GJ3366@k7.mavetju>

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On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> Hello Quinton,
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:49:55PM +1000, Q wrote:
>> I have written a collection of ports (16 in total) for building a
>> typical Apple WebObjects deployment environment. As most of these
>> ports depend on one another in some way could someone advise what the
>> most appropriate way to submit these ports as a bundle would be?
>
> This is going to be tricky :-)

Heh. :)

> The way I would do it is to submit the ports one by one and keep
> the synopsis recognizable:
>
>    [NEW PORT] Apple WebObjects Deployment Environment: www/foobar

I think Edwin's advice is good, the only thing I'd add is maybe an "N of 
M" to the synopsis to make it easier to keep them grouped.

Doug

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