Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 20:15:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960825200737.16496A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960825194802.30980D-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
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[I switched the order of my quoting to get the main point up at the top] On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > If you put a lot of gratuitous stuff in your Makefile, it's just going to > discourage folks from trying to figure out how to make more ports. Bah humbug. If they're making a port, they're not likely some kind of technophobe who will cringe at the site of a few details. Remember, making a port potentially involves close examination of the ported source files, likely an examination of of the included Makefile, and who-knows what-else. It's not like you're dealing with babies who are new to computing. > > LIST_FREEBSD = hylafax@freebsd.org > > MAINTAINER = jhs@freebsd.org > > LIST_GENERIC = flexfax@sgi.com > > AUTHOR_CURRENT = sam@sgi.com > > AUTHOR_ORIGINAL = sam@sgi.com > > Julian, if it's not being used in bsd.port.mk, what possible use are the > variables? Stuff like this might be more useful as a comment, or maybe in > the DESCR file. I can't think of a single port that would need more info > than the author of the original sources, and the FreeBSD maintainer[s]. One thing that could conceviebly be useful is somewhere to report bugs. This would probably be the maintainer. A special target, 'pr' could be used to send a bug, or something like `pkg_bug'. Of course, this would just make it all the more complicated for a newuser (as opposed to a single "send-pr" program). Actually, the more I think about it the less I like it. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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