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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:02:35 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Martin <nakal@web.de> writes:
> > I would personally like it to use XML. I'm developing a small
> > application which is a kind of GUI for ports (works like a
> > browser). It is very difficult to parse the Makefiles to find
> > out which version number and which dependencies it has. Some
> > versions (like KDE3) are just variables and I don't have an
> > idea how to fetch them yet.
>=20
> make -V
>=20

I use make -V a lot, and it's slow (every time you run it, make has to
reread all the bsd.*.mk files, such as bsd.port.mk).  The speed isn't much
of an issue when you only do one or two ports, but when you are examining
the entire ports collection, you notice.=20

That said, I'd still rather use a makefile based ports system anyway.

--=20
Robin Schoonover (aka End)
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