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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:35:24 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Feature request:  Store dist file size somewhere
Message-ID:  <20000322143524.A39011@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000322000312.A53101@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
References:  <20000322000312.A53101@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Wed 2000-03-22 (00:03), Nik Clayton wrote:
> A small feature request: would it be possible to store the size of the 
> distfile(s) somewhere in the ports tree, files/size perhaps?

Great idea - I know quite a few people around here (and further
north in Africa) who'll love it.

While we're talking about Feature requests; my portconf program
received very minimal comment, and I'm sure it's not because the
idea sucks.  Check out http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nbm/portconf/
for a 8 month old, or so, idea of the program and concept.

It basically means, at the end of the day, every port that needs
it, can have a nice dialog (or gtk) selection window like the
apache13-php3 port has.

It's currently using xml, but I'll be happy to rewrite it in
something that works better for others.  I think this sort of thing
will, without much effort, make port options more easy to use as
a user, and implement, as a porter.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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