Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:57:56 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful? Message-ID: <c42204$2ed0$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <opr5eiuf0f8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <20040326011325.4AA3B43D5D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <40642549.6050202@ciam.ru> <20040326162515.GB57192@sirius.firepipe.net>
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Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> wrote: > We can also set rules for how "MAINTAINER" should be formatted. > How about this: > > MAINTAINER= email@address Name1 Name2 Name3 ... > > ... this will still allow programs that interpret MAINTAINER > directly by taking the second field (whitespace delimiter) to > work correctly, and makes writing said function simple. Oh, come on. You can feed Foo Bar <fbar@some.place> directly to sendmail -t. And most other places will use the full field name. Extracting the e-mail address for a mailto: link isn't exactly magic either. Nobody suggests requiring a full RFC822 parser, you don't need to handle all sorts of quoting and parentheses. About the only "problem" I foresee is whether to force our Japanese etc developers into Firstname Lastname order. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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