Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 03:14:13 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports? Message-ID: <199608241014.DAA03572@baloon.mimi.com> In-Reply-To: <5094.840878548@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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* That is, a variable defined in the Makefile which contains an author * string purely for 2 cosmetic reasons: * * 1. You can easily see where it came from, as opposed to who's simply * maintaining the FreeBSD port itself (which is all that MAINTAINER * tells you). * * 2. The author gets more prominent credit, not having their work "swallowed" * so much by the ports mechanism that many become anonymous to those users * who aren't motivated enough to go digging through the port's work * directory. * * I'm sure we could also use the extra information to dress up the web * pages a little bit. You mean we put things like "AUTHOR=rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu" for emacs? Hmm...well I don't know, it seems like just some extra work for the porters for not really much gain. If the authors wants 2, they would have declared it themselves in the manpages.... :) Besides, how exactly are you planning to use it? The author can be a group of people, just a name and snail mail address (no e-mail), a company name, etc...so it's not like you can stick in a mailto: to have it underlined like MAINTAINER.... ;) Satoshi
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