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> References: <20121005140534.GB61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <CAF6rxgkz1iRZARvZX95gruNiBB%2BCWzqo7w16pdm12ep=wMuKpg@mail.gmail.com>
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--2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlBu+hMACgkQ8kTtMUmk6Exs0gCdFMNgZcXF14bd41EcGlr/GvrI 2Z8AoMIKdxvi9aHnnTTVF6RyDkjIFafE =uvEy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2/5bycvrmDh4d1IB--
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