Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:12:58 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 0d32a5b3a674 - main - devel/envsubst: new port Message-ID: <YHgtyiTImf4khG13@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20210415120901.aecqfpaknfp4ssdy@aniel.nours.eu> References: <202104150843.13F8hLsi083679@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <YHgFUx4FllK5SyCm@FreeBSD.org> <20210415092406.i46vogudauzlkgap@aniel.nours.eu> <YHgqvmTHhmaQpr/G@FreeBSD.org> <20210415120524.hpjyuhrpqq435iwk@aching.in.mat.cc> <20210415120901.aecqfpaknfp4ssdy@aniel.nours.eu>
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 02:09:01PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 02:05:24PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:59:58AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:24:06AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 09:20:19AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 08:43:21AM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > commit 0d32a5b3a674a636b4a42d237b56d2dcd0847b4e > > > > > > Author: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> > > > > > > AuthorDate: 2021-04-15 08:41:48 +0000 > > > > > > > > > > > > devel/envsubst: new port > > > > > > > > > > How's it better than textproc/xenv? > > > > > > > > Don't know, I have never played with xenv ;) just reading the source, > > > > I way prefer envsubst over xenv :D > > > > > > Regardless of the code quality, any specific reason why was it placed > > > in the overpopulated `devel' category but not in a less inhabited and > > > more specific one, e.g. `textproc'? > > > > Because it is not a text processing utility? I think it is. > I hesitated where to put it, and ended it putting it in devel, because it > is actually a reimplementation of a utility which is provided by gettext. > > My goal with this tool and with gettext-tiny which I added later is to be > able to reduce the number of ports which requires/uses gettext tools at > build time. Understood, thank you. ./danfe
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