From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Feb 10 01:57:17 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA74AA3AA1 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:57:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from www.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [208.86.226.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CFEF9B for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:57:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [208.86.226.86]) by www.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F9A71B72800; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:57:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 77CD144A5F0; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:57:08 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:57:08 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: John Marino Cc: Jim Ohlstein , Hrant Dadivanyan , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: synth documentation (was: Removing documentation) Message-ID: <20160210015708.GN71035@eureka.lemis.com> References: <56B9EDC7.1010403@ohlste.in> <56B9F2D6.1090107@marino.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LwbuP8dfxhLLLUfV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56B9F2D6.1090107@marino.st> Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5346-1370, +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: 0401 265 606. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:57:17 -0000 --LwbuP8dfxhLLLUfV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 15:08:22 +0100, John Marino wrote: > > Do you think the illustrated README on the github page is helpful? > > https://github.com/jrmarino/synth I looked at that a couple of days ago. It's certainly much better than anything else I've seen on github, but it's still written from the programmer's viewpoint: "this is how synth is structured, and what it does". What I was referring to in an earlier mail, and which a couple of other people have also mentioned, is the answer to the question "How do I use synth to do *this*?". I installed the synth package a couple of days ago, mainly to take a look. And yes, I agree, if you're happy with the package (I would be), the Ada dependencies and long build times aren't an issue. I'm sure the learning curve isn't overly steep, but it was enough to keep me from running it just for the fun of it. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua --LwbuP8dfxhLLLUfV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAla6mPQACgkQIubykFB6QiP6YACeKPhmYFqYQAfx35UssNfivJxO aTwAn2yMwnKZ4WxSKWH+IU+kR1qOn+TQ =YWl8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LwbuP8dfxhLLLUfV--