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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:32:21 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Shaun Amott <shaun@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [CHANGE PROPOSAL] Moving WWW from pkg-descr to Makefile
Message-ID:  <20121005153221.GE61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121005151544.GA9938@charon.picobyte.net>
References:  <20121005140534.GB61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20121005151544.GA9938@charon.picobyte.net>

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On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:15:44PM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > Do anyone have any concern about this?
>=20
> A good idea in principle, but I think we need to take care to ensure
> that the information is easily discoverable by end users. There's a risk
> that burying the URLs in Makefiles might make them less accessible.
>=20
How that would be more complicated than the actual way?

Given that there are 2 user friendly way to get the information: make search
(which uses INDEX so no change in that area) and freshports and I will make=
 sure
that we will switch in sync with it.

regards,
Bapt

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