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From: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org>
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Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: distfile belongs to?
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:08:45PM -0800, Ade Lovett wrote:
> 
> On Dec 05, 2006, at 13:59 , Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> >Wesley Shields wrote:
> >>>@comment DISTFILE:$filename:$size:$md5:$sha256
> >
> >I think that's good, the other information might come in handy down
> >the road. One thing you might want to consider is to put the md5 sum
> >at the end, since at some point down the road (maybe years from now,
> >but still ...) we're likely to drop md5 altogether.
> 
> Better still would be:
> 
> @comment DISTFILE:<filename>[':' <key>=<value>]*
> 
> eg:  DISTFILE:foo:SIZE=1234:MD5=...:SHA256=...
> 
> Relying on the specific position of an item in a delimited list  
> almost always comes back and bites in painful spots later on down the  
> way.  Minimal extra parsing required by consumers, and bits and  
> pieces can be added/removed almost at will.
> 
> -aDe

I agree.  I'll modify Doug's latest patch to add this.

-- WXS