From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 18 17:12:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 94EAC5CE; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:12:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:12:53 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Mark Felder Subject: Re: Proposal: further OptionsNG improvements Message-ID: <20130618171253.GA93721@FreeBSD.org> References: <20130618160037.GA26677@regency.nsu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:12:53 -0000 On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:56:07AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > So we just got done porting most of the tree to a new options syntax > and now we want to change it again? :-) Yeah, why not? ;-) I've discussed that idea before with bapt@ on IRC; there is absolutely no reasons why we should not use now-free nice, short OPTIONS knob again. Obviously, it will happen gradually, in a piece-meal fashion; just like with recently introduced FOO_*_DEPENDS stuff. No one is talking about converting all ports at once. I personally really don't like to have two, often duplicating, lists of OPTIONS_DEFINE and _DEFAULT, esp. given the fact that OPTIONS_DEFAULT tends to break indentation. ./danfe