Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:54:16 -0500 From: Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Subject: Re: Why does everybody switch to dynamic plists? Message-ID: <1BBF904B-463C-4F03-9815-830434A2DDF1@ahze.net> In-Reply-To: <opskyzfbjl9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <20050121205202.4092fc5a@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <opskyzfbjl9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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On Jan 21, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:52:02 +0100, Alexander Leidinger > <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote: > >> I count 1 positive and 5 negative aspects. >> >> If the developer of a port puts the dynamic plist generation into a >> Makefile target instead of inlining it into the build/install process, >> he doesn't needs to put alot more effort into the development process >> (just one "make <generate-the-plist-target>") and gets the benefits of >> static plists too. >> this isn't always true. look at www/mozilla or multimedia/vlc. Each have thousands of plist files and hundreds that change depending on how the end-user configures the port. It's more reliable to use dynamic plist's for these ports. But all in all I like static plist's best. >> Maybe I've overlooked something, but so far I haven't seen a dynamic >> plist which needs to be a dynamic one. So I think at least 99% of our >> dynamic plists don't need to be dynamic. >> > I, one, who is on your side. Two people wasn't happy with me when I > refused to switch from static to dynamic in games/wesnoth. > games/wesnoth is getting near 3k lines. ;-) > > >> Bye, >> Alexander. >> > -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD GNOME Team > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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