Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:55:52 -0800 From: Jason Helfman <jgh@FreeBSD.org> To: Erwin Lansing <erwin@freebsd.org> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> Subject: Re: Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports Message-ID: <CAMuy=%2Bg7V=eB10ASp3KY34qViJ-7Yw-QJu_jKFkO-_CrvWfFTg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131114073008.GG90670@droso.dk> References: <5283E4A0.6090107@pcbsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1311132124560.48376@fire.magemana.nl> <CAF6rxgmdewA=jtWL-8dyGrzSFTkxM2P8jWDYYcXr4BXOEdgx_w@mail.gmail.com> <20131114073008.GG90670@droso.dk>
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Erwin Lansing <erwin@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 04:47:20PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl> > wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Kris Moore wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> Wanted to run this by the ports community, see your thoughts. We build > > >> our PBIs from the ports system, and are able to parse most of the > > >> information out for display graphically, like descriptions, > maintainers, > > >> website, License, etc. However we currently don't have a way to pull > the > > >> actual name of the upstream vendor / author. I.E. for Firefox the > vendor > > >> would be "Mozilla". > > > > > > > > > WWW: [Mozilla](http://www.mozilla.org/) > > > > > > So, markdown format in pkg-descr. Seems the least amount of work? > > > > This adds a lot of work to the parser. > > > > IMHO we should have VENDOR_WWW and possibly VENDOR_NAME in the port's > > Makefile. It should not be hard to automate this for VENDOR_WWW since > > we already have the WWW: lines in pkg-descr. > > > > That sounds like an excellent idea. I'm just a bit worried about > spreading the information over too many places, and would rather split > content from logic and add these to pkg-descr as well next to the > current WWW. I know we're not consistent already with things like > COMMENT and LICENSE already in the Makefile, so won't ojbect too much to > where these end up. > > Erwin > With good ideas usually bloat is not too far behind. I think this is a great idea, however I think it would be worth considering a potential new file for this, that can be parsed without causing too much new data in existing files. Perhaps, a file named pkg-vendor. In this file, all sorts of information can be places, and parsed or used by our package infrastructure. -jgh -- Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer jgh@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh | The Power to Serve
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