From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 19 2:16:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (ns.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE6437B491 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:16:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (root@vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.112]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f1JAF0n08436; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:15:29 +0200 Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1JAF3m74858; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:15:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A90F226.A4E3DD8A@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:15:02 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Nevermind , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: COMMENT in makefiles (Re: [wiz@netbsd.org: CVS commit: pkgsrc]) References: <20010218171737.B44211@nevermind.kiev.ua> <200102181927.f1IJR0n01529@vic.sabbo.net> <20010219020452.A40459@mollari.cthul.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:27:00PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > > >> Log Message: > > > >> Update to new COMMENT style: COMMENT var in Makefile instead of pkg/COMM= > > > ENT. > > > > > > > What do people think about this change? Personally, I think it would > > > > be great..frees up another 4500 inodes from the ports collection. > > > > > > I think that should be useful. I have slow hdds, so it will be useful while > > > cvsuping, while make readme'ing and so on.=20 > > > > I'm also voting for this change, however IMO Makefile a best place > > for a COMMENT (Makefile's from our ports collection are already overloaded > > with variables). I would propose to put it into pkg-descr, just like WWW > > line. Another possible benefit for having it in pkg-descr is that you can > > Well, I don't agree there are good enough reasons to do it this > way..it seems gratuitously different and it makes the pkg-descr file > more difficult to read (comments often aren't very clear descriptions > because of size constraints). I did not mean that comment would replace description. I told that it could be either a COMMENT: field at the end of pkg-descr or first introductory line of description. Following two examples illustrate my concept using real-world example: ----------------------- This is bzip2, an advanced block-sorting file compressor. It is believed to be free from any patents. WWW: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/ COMMENT: A block-sorting file compressor ----------------------- A block-sorting file compressor. Bzip2 is an advanced block-sorting file compressor. It is believed to be free from any patents. WWW: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/ ----------------------- -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message