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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:17:39 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CHANGE PROPOSAL] Moving WWW from pkg-descr to Makefile
Message-ID:  <20121005151739.GC61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgkz1iRZARvZX95gruNiBB%2BCWzqo7w16pdm12ep=wMuKpg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:25:07AM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 5 October 2012 10:05, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to propose and make the actual move of the WWW information from =
the
> > pkg-descr to the Makefile itself via a WWW variable.
> >
> > doing this will have multiple benefits:
> >  * consistency all metadata bug this one are in Makefile
> >  * speedup make describe avoiding using grep to get the informations (m=
ake
> >    describe itself does not need speed but make index heavily use it an=
d this
> >    will definitly benefit from speed up)
> >  * Third party tool will be able to probe the information more easily.
> >
> > Do anyone have any concern about this?
>=20
> I've brought this up before in private, but I figure this is a good
> time to mention it.  I'd prefer to see a more generic way of supplying
> * arbitrary* meta-data about ports in the makefile. For example
> something like
>=20
> META=3D WWW=3Dhttps://example.com \
> CHANGELOG=3Dhttps://example.com/cl \
> DESKTOP=3Dkde \
> REDPORTS=3Dsome-special-options \
> PORTSCOUT=3Dsome-other-tool
> etc.

While the idea sounds good, how do you retrive the informations out of a si=
mple
make command, and possibilty with limiting the parsing as much as possible?

equivalent of make -VWWW (for example for make describe)

regards,
Bapt

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