From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jul 20 17:54:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784C137B400; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com (mailout08.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8850E43E31; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corecode@corecode.ath.cx) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout08.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17W4zT-0003Pa-00; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:54:27 +0200 Received: from spirit.zuhause.stoert.net (320050403952-0001@[217.82.55.42]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17W4zK-1qJ7UOC; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:54:18 +0200 Received: from terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (terrorfish.uni.stoert.net [10.150.180.178]) by spirit.zuhause.stoert.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6L0sHQ70373; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:54:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from corecode@corecode.ath.cx) Received: from terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6L0rFwZ014349; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:53:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from corecode@terrorfish.uni.stoert.net) Received: (from corecode@localhost) by terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6L0rFgR014348; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:53:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from corecode) Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:53:12 +0200 From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" To: Nik Clayton Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed new 'options' target Message-Id: <20020721025312.05805bb7.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20020720232250.GE37802@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20020720162928.GD37802@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20020720190909.458442de.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> <20020720175640.GI52296@squall.waterspout.com> <20020720232250.GE37802@clan.nothing-going-on.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=.imcQ6b'9k,4nXE" X-Sender: 320050403952-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=.imcQ6b'9k,4nXE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 00:22:50 +0100 Nik Clayton wrote: > We're essentially talking about a new configuration file for each port > that has options, that explains in some detail what those options are, > how they should be presented to the end user, and so on. yes. i'd go for a seperate options file (eg. pkg-options) but somebody might say that we're wasting too much inodes already and that should be included in the Makefile (or wherever)... > I suggest that the history of the project shows that if we wait around > for someone to solve all these problems we'll never get a solution > that works. Better to spend some time implementing something with a > small set of features that's going to be an improvement to our user > base now. right. i wanted to implement just YES/NO options (for now) without checking for mutually exclusive stuff. plain binary stuff. this will be done soon enough because it's not that complicated (except for options saving) > Any port that needs the more fancy option setting dialog stuff (as some > of them already do) can always override the options: target as > necessary. that's a good point. someday after the binary options we might provide additional option features in bsd.port.mk but until this is done overriding {pre,post}-options: should do the thing very good. cheers simon -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/#donate \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News --=.imcQ6b'9k,4nXE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9OgX7r5S+dk6z85oRAnZfAKDGgSa5fB/2f9ZDK88WqlpvLExLkwCdG475 0ayKKg3zoyiGQiV3B9ssMg0= =eUVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.imcQ6b'9k,4nXE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message