From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 14 22:42:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9461106566C; Sat, 14 May 2011 22:42:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@experts-exchange.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC7A8FC12; Sat, 14 May 2011 22:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E087A6F22B4; Sat, 14 May 2011 15:27:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=e-e.com; h= user-agent:organization:in-reply-to:content-disposition :content-type:content-type:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:subject:from:from:date:date:received:received:received; s=ee; t=1305412028; x=1307226428; bh=SrMMZ48D9ibhj/gQEHNWZV4kLU +Tmzzc6o2MWnplUVM=; b=MxMTRVGOLoKqA5JoCCb4rsVHLon9oykA1Jin2hWXu7 kfuhlrn/RT9LIA5O9/kfs7TiHGf4Wlj7j3EYEt6jMjyEe6gCYVXAx0Um1YsOOvpg GoRj4UuHjeGR/X68yv9oFrnZotqB6NU6aeZGrm+JL3Ysd86tJnXnWw9iI0YywiZX Y= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IPCVVwl0lBVR; Sat, 14 May 2011 15:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with SMTP id A28716F22B1; Sat, 14 May 2011 15:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (nullmailer pid 17626 invoked by uid 1001); Sat, 14 May 2011 22:27:05 -0000 Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 15:27:05 -0700 From: Jason Helfman To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20110514222705.GA17588@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <201105141806.p4EI6upK087278@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DCEEA98.4090300@FreeBSD.org> <4DCEF2E8.8060106@freebsd.org> <4DCEF864.50105@FreeBSD.org> <4DCF00A3.9090100@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DCF00A3.9090100@freebsd.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Organization: Experts-Exchange, LLC. http://www.experts-exchange.com X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Doug Barton , doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 22:42:33 -0000 On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 06:22:27PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke thus spake: >On 5/14/11 5:47 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 05/14/2011 14:23, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>> On 5/14/11 4:48 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >>>> Isn't the issue whether or not 70 characters will wrap in any of the >>>> places that COMMENT is used? >>> >>> That's a concern, but the fact is most people base the length of COMMENT >>> on the recommendation of portlint (which has been 70 characters >>> forever). No one has complained about COMMENT wrapping at 70 characters >>> that I have heard of. Do you know of any place where a COMMENT> 60 >>> characters wraps? >> >> You're the one asserting that 70 characters is safe. :) >> > >I'm asserting that people have been limiting their COMMENTs to 70 >characters based on portlint's recommendations for some time. pkg_info >[-I] will truncate COMMENTs at 59 characters, but even with that limit, >the COMMENTs may wrap. The goal is to give porters enough space to >display a meaningful COMMENT while not overflowing a standard 80 column >terminal. When viewing the COMMENT in the Makefile strlen(COMMENT=) + >70 < 80. > >Joe I updated the handbook sometime ago to the limit of 60, from 70. Is that incorrect? I do agree, though, that portlint should warn on that. > >-- >Joe Marcus Clarke >FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org >FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome >http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome >_______________________________________________ >cvs-doc@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-doc >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5