From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 24 04:08:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA27332 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 04:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA27325 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 04:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from baloon.mimi.com (sjx-ca65-29.ix.netcom.com [206.217.121.93]) by dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id EAA03287; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 04:07:34 -0700 Received: (from asami@localhost) by baloon.mimi.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id EAA03682; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 04:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 04:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608241107.EAA03682@baloon.mimi.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com CC: ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <15757.840882204@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports? From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * > Besides, how exactly are you planning to use it? The author can be a * * Just as an info field - I'd like to be able to remember where I got a * port from at a glance, basically. Well, I wouldn' object that, but don't really think it's useful enough to be in the Makefile. Maybe we can recommend porters put some words about the author(s) at the top of the DESCR file? Something like this: === This is superbasic, the fastest BASIC interpreter in the world designed by Dr. Kwick Mach III (machiii@superbasic.com) of Germany. The superbasic interpreter is ... === * If nobody else is enthusiastic, I hope there will be no objection if I * use it in my own port submissions? If it's going to be used by the web page or some other ports mechanism, it should be discussed and agreed upon before it can be used in the Makefile. If it's not, then it doesn't belong to the Makefile. Satoshi