Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:19:25 +0200 From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports Message-ID: <20040413121925.GB29867@voodoo.oberon.net> In-Reply-To: <p0602040cbca10a7dbe52@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p0602040cbca10a7dbe52@[128.113.24.47]>
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--oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:40:59PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > [this is BCC'ed to -hackers and -arch just so everyone has a > chance to see it, but I expect the bulk of the discussion > should take place on the freebsd-ports mailing list] >=20 > Back in January I send out a long-ish email asking for feedback > on some ideas I had for the ports-collection. I received a fair > number of comments, and have finally re-organized my ideas into > a few web pages. Hopefully these will make more sense. >=20 > Initially I had written the ideas up as a bunch of Wiki pages, > but the machine holding that Wiki died, taking with it all the > pages I had written... I have not proof-read the web pages, > so there's probably some spelling mistakes and odd sentences > on them. Apologies for that, but I wanted to get *something* > sent out this week. This project has been blocked due to a > lack of time on my part, and I want to get it moving again... >=20 > The basic idea is to collapse many of the separate files for a > port into a single pkg-data file. The web pages explain why I > think this might be worth doing. Please check them out at: >=20 > http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/PkgData/ >=20 > Some of the work for this has been done, mainly just to see how > well it might work out. The project is still probably more work > than Darren and I can finish, so we might limit ourselves to a > subset of the idea. For instance, we might start out by just > collapsing the distinfo, pkg-plist, and "files/patches-*" files > into a pkg-data file, and leave the other files for some later > project. >=20 > What I'd like is some idea of whether this project is worth > pursuing. If not, then Darren and I will concentrate on some > other, less disruptive project. If people like the general idea > of this project, then we'll see how much of we can do. If we > have some of the details wrong, then let us know what we need > to change or where we need to look for more information. I know > that I am not a full-fledged expert in every facet of the ports > collection, and I am not looking to ram some ideas down everyone's > throat. I just think that some change like this one could be > useful for the ports collection, and I'm trying to come up with > something that everyone sees as useful. >=20 > If this project does not seem like it would be worth the effort, > then that will be perfectly okay too. Please let me know what you > think. Also, please read the web pages before responding. It took > me a fair amount of time to write the web pages that are there (as > lame as they are...), and I'd rather not have to retype all of that > into a long series of disjointed messages... Seems interesting, but why do you want to convert ports-collection to XML-like format ? Do you have any particular reasons for that ? The idea of putting distinfo, pkg-plist, files/* in single file is also not quite good, sounds a little messy IMHO, the overview of information will be lost. -Kirill --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAe9rNQC1G6a60JuURArdsAJ9hZwj1HIIN7/t/d0mvGnElM76bQQCgo3vg GFLvAAaPEaoWtwel56bOrzA= =fX3w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3--
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