From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 14 08:20:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B55C24A6 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f173.google.com (mail-pd0-f173.google.com [209.85.192.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8DEA325AF for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f173.google.com with SMTP id x10so1664472pdj.4 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:20:21 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8f5D3B18CQ+6tAZfGEHyowPXs9IdFuWIko/r4iZ3ulM=; b=dAiM7dokRL4l3uIQMEZD0sZeMIxBVOzCU8hGf7Ny7fnNXFlHGWBDDjvIvEaQrkKVYW Yz2P3VyRPPVLdWpPIZHMrCt1yXMvMgP2ItzkjqQi0P+X+tf2MUhhJuAAAyJGdwYDcVd1 w14uzU6ybTPjCrKFuF5bhjJk7QKZevhRmn3766BGbktJsN6MwzrZhKJFJfEyDXV4Ua27 4zEHwBAtaA2ajwaeoblmTRnXD3OKhqzU9XMGWCzwlHqbeH+UHVQnGzx9zyJk6ImzpuK9 /mWc1nAkpzVwdBEbUKmHu8NYDNlnyEepnOmhWewk3rGM7j7MYMLMBRTGfznnPOYXCo+M lnjw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmQoyOY2BYxR5Mvvp4Jsn0MCSgopGSyBOCaUE/AiA6mAPD9fXnHwwtLCzalA51YHXZVWZtB MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.190.229 with SMTP id gt5mr13135914pbc.177.1384415752251; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:55:52 -0800 (PST) Sender: bsd-src@helfman.org Received: by 10.70.100.165 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:55:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20131114073008.GG90670@droso.dk> References: <5283E4A0.6090107@pcbsd.org> <20131114073008.GG90670@droso.dk> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:55:52 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: pNtOI50QANv0d8g4HJmTSjOac3Y Message-ID: Subject: Re: Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports From: Jason Helfman To: Erwin Lansing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.16 Cc: Eitan Adler , Melvyn Sopacua , FreeBSD Ports , Kris Moore X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:20:27 -0000 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Erwin Lansing wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 04:47:20PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Melvyn Sopacua > wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Kris Moore wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> Wanted to run this by the ports community, see your thoughts. We build > > >> our PBIs from the ports system, and are able to parse most of the > > >> information out for display graphically, like descriptions, > maintainers, > > >> website, License, etc. However we currently don't have a way to pull > the > > >> actual name of the upstream vendor / author. I.E. for Firefox the > vendor > > >> would be "Mozilla". > > > > > > > > > WWW: [Mozilla](http://www.mozilla.org/) > > > > > > So, markdown format in pkg-descr. Seems the least amount of work? > > > > This adds a lot of work to the parser. > > > > IMHO we should have VENDOR_WWW and possibly VENDOR_NAME in the port's > > Makefile. It should not be hard to automate this for VENDOR_WWW since > > we already have the WWW: lines in pkg-descr. > > > > That sounds like an excellent idea. I'm just a bit worried about > spreading the information over too many places, and would rather split > content from logic and add these to pkg-descr as well next to the > current WWW. I know we're not consistent already with things like > COMMENT and LICENSE already in the Makefile, so won't ojbect too much to > where these end up. > > Erwin > With good ideas usually bloat is not too far behind. I think this is a great idea, however I think it would be worth considering a potential new file for this, that can be parsed without causing too much new data in existing files. Perhaps, a file named pkg-vendor. In this file, all sorts of information can be places, and parsed or used by our package infrastructure. -jgh -- Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer jgh@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh | The Power to Serve