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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:19:42 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
To:        "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to submit a new port along with its distfile?
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote=
:
> If anyone's interested, the package is call mkreadmes-1.0. =A0It's a C
> language version of the port's collection's "make readmes" (or, if you
> will, the perl "make_readmes" script under the Tools directory). =A0I
> wrote this because I was very dissatisfied with the speed of rebuilding
> the README.html files after I update my ports tree. =A0This new tool I've
> written cuts the time down to practically nothing. =A0I can now rebuild
> all the README.html files for the entire ports tree in less than 30
> seconds. =A0Depending on system load, I've actually seen it run in as
> little as @ 15 seconds.
>
> If you want to try it before it becomes an official port, it's already
> available on Sourceforge right now. =A0It should compile and install very
> easily on any FreeBSD system, even without the port framework wrapper.
>
> The source archive is available at:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mkreadmes/files/mkreadmes-1.0.tar.bz2/dow=
nload
>
> A README file is included in the distribution. =A0Online help is also
> available via the "-h" command line option.
>
> Please don't hesitate to send me any questions, comments, suggestions,
> bug reports, etc.

Conrad,

Thanks so much for mkreadmes. It works as advertised and this is  the
first time in years that I have built all of the READMEs because it
just took way, way too long to do so before mkreadmes.
--=20
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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