Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:59:46 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/tkcvs Makefile Message-ID: <29348.838763986@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:32:52 PDT." <199607301932.MAA00508@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> (3) Category is "devel", not "x11 utility" ("utility" doesn't even exist
> anymore!)
Blush! I guess I didn't read *that* very carefully, did I?
> (4) Reorder variables and insert empty lines to follow the guidelines.
Umm. I've asked about this before, but the 2 times I've gone
searching for the "guidelines" I've generally found myself in the
twisty maze of ports documentation and given up - that stuff needs a
rewrite so badly it's practically screaming for it. I've read the
"configuring the Makefile" section and there's nothing even remotely
close to "guidelines" there, just a painful examination of each and
every variable (and I know, I wrote a lot of it).
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you truly wish to have
the ports follow some set of "guidelines" then you have to make a
/usr/ports/template port that contains fill-in-the-blank fields for
everything and instructions to delete everything that's not relevant
to your port. A set of guidelines without a readable blueprint is
pretty useless.
Jordan
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