Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:03:34 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: complaint Message-ID: <20050315180037.K84655@april.chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0503151652320.11895-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0503151652320.11895-100000@pancho>
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > The point is, there is no organized rule to follow, like some standard > > naming rule to non-options, so there is nowhere for users to be able to > > make educated guesses about where the options ought to be. > > Great! Please send patches. > > > My own suggestion? Every port have an OPTIONS list, which is a variable > > that lists EVERY available makefile option, and naming be such that their > > use should be opbvious. > > Great! Please send patches. > > > I am too busy right now to work on kde > > Well, there's the rub, isn't it? Well, I have to focus somewhere, and kde isn't my choice. I don't want to be a dutch uncle though, so I will undertake to port several, as examples, and write up what I did, for others to follow, would that be helpful? Like I said, I would be aliar if I said I would do 8000 of them, I can't, won't, and won't lie about it. Or am I all wet? Make a suggestion, if I'm all wrong. > > All of these things will need to be patched in the ports, then > documented, then tested all to hell and back again on tinderboxen > before seeing commits to the tree. > > And that's why it has not happened in the past -- not because it's > not possibly a good idea, but the actual implementation and QA that > it's going to take is daunting. > > mcl > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity, Signa Phi Nothing). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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