From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 11 15:24:20 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 1815537B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:24:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD8F43E42 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:24:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gh@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAC1Q2k18203; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:26:05 -0600 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id 8A01A1F2F; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:24:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:24:02 -0600 From: "Daniel M. Kurry" To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinking about PORTCOMMENTS Message-ID: <20021111232402.GA2153@over-yonder.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD 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 On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:08:34PM -0500 I heard the voice of Garance A Drosihn, and lo! it spake thus: [...] > Why should we keep trying to stuff more and more things into 'make' > variables in the Makefile for a port? I understand the advantage > of having fewer files, so we want to put more information into the > Makefile, but does that information really have to be done as > 'make' variables? How about if we did it as some kind of fake-XML? Is there any reason /not/ to put them in make variables? [...fake XML...] > Is the value of the proposed PORTCOMMENT value actually used in > any make-targets? Or is it just read by some program to generate > HTML pages? (...this is the part that I should have investigated > more...). If it is not used in any commands which are generated > by some make target, then I think it would be easier & better if > we tried some kind of "fake XML" approach. To me, a make variable sounds simpler than fake XML. One line for PORTCOMMENT versus at least two for the XML tags? dan > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message