From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 14 21:41:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F82A1065674; Sat, 14 May 2011 21:41:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404788FC13; Sat, 14 May 2011 21:41:57 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4ELNthq001712; Sat, 14 May 2011 17:23:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4ELNqmj023528; Sat, 14 May 2011 17:23:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DCEF2E8.8060106@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:23:52 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <201105141806.p4EI6upK087278@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DCEEA98.4090300@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4DCEEA98.4090300@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: **OBSOLETE** CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 21:41:57 -0000 On 5/14/11 4:48 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > Isn't the issue whether or not 70 characters will wrap in any of the > places that COMMENT is used? That's a concern, but the fact is most people base the length of COMMENT on the recommendation of portlint (which has been 70 characters forever). No one has complained about COMMENT wrapping at 70 characters that I have heard of. Do you know of any place where a COMMENT > 60 characters wraps? Joe > > > > On 05/14/2011 11:06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> marcus 2011-05-14 18:06:56 UTC >> >> FreeBSD doc repository >> >> Modified files: >> en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml >> Log: >> Correct a discrepancy between the Porter's Handbook and portlint >> with regard >> to COMMENT. Portlint recommends a COMMENT no longer than 70 >> characters where >> as the Porter's Handbook recommends 60. Given that most people >> have built >> COMMENT based on the portlint's recommendation, update the handbook >> to say >> COMMENT should be no longer than 70 characters. >> >> PR: 156832 >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156832 >> Discussed with: portmgr >> >> Revision Changes Path >> 1.1105 +1 -1 >> doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml >> >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml.diff?&r1=1.1104&r2=1.1105&f=h >> >> > > > -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome