From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 21 19:18:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D03237BE13; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:18:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca6-109.ix.netcom.com [205.186.213.109]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA14933; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:18:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id TAA05731; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:18:34 -0800 (PST) To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "# Version required:" References: <20000212180205.A42274@dragon.nuxi.com> <86puu1prj4.wl@daemon.local.idaemons.org> <20000321171641.A41941@dragon.nuxi.com> From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 21 Mar 2000 19:18:27 -0800 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:16:41 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: "David O'Brien" By the way, thanks for backing out the previous commits. * I propose the following patches, which remove the "# Version required: x.y" * comment as it is typically out of date, and tells nothing useful about * the port. [In my 5 years doing ports, I've never gotten one ounce of * useful information from this comment line] That's because you haven't seen enough ports. :) Go take a look at ports/japanese, there are plenty of examples where the version number in PKGNAME doesn't convey enough information to tell what exactly the port is and the "version required" comment serves its purpose. I'd like to keep it as an optional line, to be used in case the version string in the package name is not descriptive enough. * I see no need to make any decision on the outcome of any new port knobs * (such as PACAGE= and VERSION=) a requirement on us agreeing to apply * these two patches. I have no problem with the portlint patch but please wait for the handbook, if we are going to leave it as an optional field then we might want to say something like "Use this if the ${VERSION} variable doesn't include enough information". Also, don't go changing the port Makefiles, I will go and do it all in one sweep with the PKGNAME/VERSION change. (If you are importing a new port, doing it without the version required line is fine.) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message