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Date:      Wed, 02 Jun 1999 18:21:58 +0200
From:      Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se>
To:        vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca
Cc:        Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se>
Subject:   Re: documentation: how to write a PLIST
Message-ID:  <19990602182158Y.kaj@raditex.se>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:34:03 -0400" <19990602113403.A90582@mad>
References:  <19990602113403.A90582@mad>

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>>>>> "RK" == Rasmus Kaj (me) wrote
>>>>> "TV" == Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> commented:

 RK> Someone has worked hard to explicitly state 'WWW:' in front of all the 
 RK> web URLs in DESCR files for ports. Except in the documentation.

 TV> That would be me and mharo.  :-)

 RK> I have $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.130 1999/02/11 04:14:46 simokawa Exp $ in 
 RK> doc/handbook, and think there should be a WWW: inserted at line 117.

 TV> No, they only go into the pkg/DESCR port files.  They ultimately make
 TV> their way into the ports INDEX file.  They are supposedly used by some
 TV> tools.  I'm not sure what tools, or why...

Hmm? That seems like a comment on my third paragraph (which you didn't
quote), if it was intended as an answer to the quoted paragraph, I may
point out that doc/handbook/porting.sgml is the instructions for
contributing a port, and line 177 of it is in the middle of an example
of a pkg/DESCR file. 

You don't want to have to keep inserting 'WWW:' into every new port
that comes in, do you?  :-)

Sorry if I didn't make myself clear enough ... Here's a suggested diff 
for porting.sgml, so you see what I'm talking about ...

--- snip ---
# diff -u -U 7 porting.sgml porting.sgml.suggestion
--- porting.sgml        Thu Feb 11 05:14:46 1999
+++ porting.sgml.suggestion     Wed Jun  2 18:10:10 1999
@@ -110,15 +110,15 @@
 
 <tscreen><verb>
 This is a port of oneko, in which a cat chases a poor mouse all over
 the screen.
  :
 (etc.)
 
-http://www.oneko.org/
+WWW: http://www.oneko.org/
 
 - Satoshi
 asami@cs.berkeley.edu
 </verb></tscreen>
 
        <sect3>
          <heading>PLIST</heading>
--- snip ---

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